Re: Must be owner to truncate?

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:48:59PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> >   The current permissions checks for truncate seem to be excessive.  It
> >   requires that you're the owner of the relation instead of requiring
> >   that you have delete permissions on the relation.  It was pointed out
> >   that truncate doesn't call triggers but it seems like that would be
> >   something easy enough to check for.
> 
> There are other reasons for restricting it:
>  * truncate takes a much stronger lock than a plain delete does.
>  * truncate is not MVCC-safe.
> 
> I don't really agree with the viewpoint that truncate is just a quick
> DELETE, and so I do not agree that DELETE permissions should be enough
> to let you do a TRUNCATE.

What about adding a truncate permission? I would find it useful, as it
seems would others.
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