* Ragnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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.
It also takes a bigger lock on the table than DELETE, which may or may
not be considered a security issue. triggers really are the big issue
wrt security and why it deserves to be a seperatelly grantable
permission from delete.
Thanks,
Stephen
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