Re: Regarding TODO item "%Add a separate TRUNCATE permission"

* Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@commandprompt.com) wrote:
> Stephen Frost wrote:
>
> > > The question that really ought to be answered before doing any of this
> > > is why DELETE privilege shouldn't be sufficient to allow TRUNCATE.
> >
> > TRUNCATE doesn't follow MVCC...
>
> We can certainly talk about fixing that.  (And CLUSTER at the same time,
> I think.)

The issue is that it seems to be intractable to retain MVCC-ness *and*
provide the performance savings TRUNCATE gives.  If you can solve that
problem then we could get rid of TRUNCATE and implement
DELETE-without-WHERE using that magic.
Thanks,
    Stephen