So what do you think about it? Do you think is it useful?
I'd rather spend effort making the initial execution of said commands less likely. Something like:
TRUNCATE table YES_I_REALLY_WANT_TO_DO_THIS;
I think an optional setting making DELETE and UPDATE without a WHERE clause illegal would be handy. Obviously this would have to be optional for backward compatibility. Perhaps even just a GUC setting, with the intent being that one would set it in .psqlrc so that omitting the WHERE clause at the command line would just be a syntax error. If one actually does need to affect the whole table one can just say WHERE TRUE. For applications, which presumably have their SQL queries tightly controlled and pre-written anyway, this would most likely not be particularly useful.
