Lynwood Stewart wrote:
>I was expecting "truncate table <tablename>" to truncate a table if I had
>delete permissions. This does not appear to be the case.
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>Would someone confirm this for me, or let me know what I am doing wrong.
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This is the case. You are not doing anything wrong. There was a
discussion on this on the NOVICE list beginning on 2/22. The subject
was "Question on TRUNCATE privileges"
At the end of the day the answer is to have the table owner create a
truncate function with SECURITY DEFINER privilege.
The following is from Tom Lane.
See CREATE FUNCTION. Something like (untested)
create function truncate_my_table() returns void as $$ truncate my_table $$ language sql security definer;
You'd probably then revoke the default public EXECUTE rights on this function, and grant EXECUTE only to selected
users.
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Kind Regards,
Keith
