On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:27 AM, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote: > Folks, > > Please find attached a patch which makes it possible to disallow > UPDATEs and DELETEs which lack a WHERE clause. As this changes query > behavior, I've made the new GUCs PGC_SUSET. > > What say? >
The use case for this functionality that comes to mind is to avoid deleting/updating all the data, if user has accidentally missed the WHERE clause. Do you have other use case for this functionality? With this functionality, if user needs to actually delete or update all the rows, then he has to artificially add where clause which seems slightly inconvenient, but may be such cases are less.
It's a commonly requested feature. Personally I think it's kind of silly, but I've had multiple people ask me for it or how to do it too. So whether or not it's really effective/useful, it's in demand.
Personally I'd rather see it as part of an extension that does other filtering, I don't find it compelling for core. But I don't really object either.
