Re: Truncate Permission

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Ewald Geschwinde <egeschwinde(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Nick Barr <nicky(at)chuckie(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Truncate Permission
Date: 2007-06-11 11:49:20
Message-ID: 20070611114920.GQ7531@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD (ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at) wrote:
>
> > > Wouldn't it be far more logical to decide that if a user has the
> > > permissions to do a DELETE FROM table; then they have permission to
> do
> > > a TRUNCATE? Why make an additional permission?
> >
> > Truncate doesn't fire ON DELETE triggers.
>
> Yes, but it would imho be ok if there are'nt any on delete triggers on
> the table.

Nope, it doesn't follow MVCC rules properly either. It really needs to
be a seperate permission.

Thanks,

Stephen

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