Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > > Uh, that seems like it adds extra complexity just for this single case. > > Yeah. I've dropped the idea personally -- the suggestion that the table > owner can provide a SECURITY DEFINER procedure to do the TRUNCATE if he > wants to allow others to do it seems to me to cover the problem. > > > Why don't we allow TRUNCATE by non-owners only if no triggers are > > defined, and if they are defined, we throw an error and mention it is > > because triggers/contraints exist? > > I don't think we should put weird special cases in the rights checking > to allow this -- that's usually a recipe for introducing unintended > security holes.
Yea, good point. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
