Re: Must be table owner to truncate?

On Wednesday 30 July 2008 08:52:26 Ragnar wrote:
> On mið, 2008-07-30 at 07:36 -0400, Kevin Hunter wrote:
> > At 3:45p -0400 on Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Said Ramirez wrote:
> > > According to the documentation,
> > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/sql-truncate.html ,
> > > only the owner can truncate a table. Which means the non-owner must
> > > either log in/ switch roles as the owner, or they can just run a
> > > DELETE.
> >
> > Well that's interesting.  From a security standpoint, what's the
> > difference between an unqualified DELETE and a TRUNCATE?
>
> lack of triggers and RULEs spring to mind.
>

Just fyi, there is a patch for 8.4 that will add truncate permissions.

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