Re: Must be table owner to truncate? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ragnar
Subject Re: Must be table owner to truncate?
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Msg-id 1217422346.9672.1.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: Must be table owner to truncate?  (Kevin Hunter <hunteke@earlham.edu>)
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Re: Must be table owner to truncate?
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On mið, 2008-07-30 at 07:36 -0400, Kevin Hunter wrote:
> At 3:45p -0400 on Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Said Ramirez wrote:
> > According to the documentation,
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/sql-truncate.html ,
> > only the owner can truncate a table. Which means the non-owner must
> > either log in/ switch roles as the owner, or they can just run a DELETE.
>
> Well that's interesting.  From a security standpoint, what's the
> difference between an unqualified DELETE and a TRUNCATE?

lack of triggers and RULEs spring to mind.

gnari



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