Re: Must be table owner to truncate?

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?

Also interesting to note that TRUNCATE is transaction safe, but not MVCC
safe.  Good to know, good to know ...

Kevin