Re: Regarding TODO item "%Add a separate TRUNCATE permission" - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> > we need
> > to redesign the permission system to allow for more permission bits
> > because otherwise we'll run out soon.
> 
> Only if we keep inventing separate privileges for things as specific
> as TRUNCATE.  I was just about to raise this point as a possible reason
> why not to invent a separate TRUNCATE bit.  (There are other problems,
> eg both 't' and 'T' letters are already taken.)
> 
> The question that really ought to be answered before doing any of this
> is why DELETE privilege shouldn't be sufficient to allow TRUNCATE.

TODO has:
* %Add a separate TRUNCATE permission  Currently only the owner can TRUNCATE a table because triggers are not  called,
andthe table is locked in exclusive mode.
 

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