Re: Truncate Permission - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Truncate Permission
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Msg-id 20070611085905.GA25296@svana.org
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In response to Re: Truncate Permission  ("Ewald Geschwinde" <egeschwinde@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Truncate Permission  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 09:40:08AM +0200, Ewald Geschwinde wrote:
> My problem is that some users don't have access to change the structure but
> they wanted to delete all data from the table
> they try truncate - does not work because not the owner
> so they make a delete from a really big table

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?

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.

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