Re: Question on TRUNCATE privleges - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Question on TRUNCATE privleges
Date
Msg-id 200502242221.j1OMLTK24273@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Question on TRUNCATE privleges  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Uh, that seems like it adds extra complexity just for this single case.
>
> Yeah.  I've dropped the idea personally -- the suggestion that the table
> owner can provide a SECURITY DEFINER procedure to do the TRUNCATE if he
> wants to allow others to do it seems to me to cover the problem.
>
> > Why don't we allow TRUNCATE by non-owners only if no triggers are
> > defined, and if they are defined, we throw an error and mention it is
> > because triggers/contraints exist?
>
> I don't think we should put weird special cases in the rights checking
> to allow this -- that's usually a recipe for introducing unintended
> security holes.

Yea, good point.

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