Re: PoC: Make it possible to disallow WHERE-less UPDATE and DELETE

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Vik Fearing <vik(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PoC: Make it possible to disallow WHERE-less UPDATE and DELETE
Date: 2016-07-27 01:15:33
Message-ID: 370b84e1-c6eb-4f43-f90d-10f1a7a4d332@2ndquadrant.com
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On 7/26/16 6:14 PM, Vik Fearing wrote:
> As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, you can just do WHERE true to get
> around it, so why on Earth have it PGC_SUSET?

I'm not sure whether it's supposed to guard against typos and possibly
buggy SQL string concatenation in application code. So it would help
against accidental mistakes, whereas putting a WHERE TRUE in there would
be an intentional override.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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