Re: Truncate Triggers

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 10:44 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> There are way too many table privilege bits already; to add more you
>> need something a lot stronger than a "might be nice" argument.

> People use TRUNCATE whatever we say. If you force people to be table
> owners or superusers you merely restrict their security options.

By that argument you could justify a separate privilege bit for anything
at all, eg, each sub-variant of ALTER TABLE.  Please present an actual
argument why TRUNCATE should get its own bit.
        regards, tom lane