Re: Must be owner to truncate?

* Jim C. Nasby (decibel@decibel.org) wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:48:59PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > 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.

That would be acceptable for me as well.  I'd prefer it just work off
delete, but as long as I can grant truncate to someone w/o giving them
ownership rights on the table I'd be happy.
Thanks,
    Stephen