Re: Must be owner to truncate?

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Postgres Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2005-07-08T02:23:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> There are other reasons for restricting it:
>  * truncate takes a much stronger lock than a plain delete does.
>  * truncate is not MVCC-safe.
> 
> 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.

Ah.  I didn't realise that 2nd point.  I don't care so much about the 
stronger lock in my application.

Chris