Re: Regarding TODO item "%Add a separate TRUNCATE permission"

* Stephen Frost (sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net) wrote:
> * Alvaro Herrera (alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com) wrote:
> > Stephen Frost wrote:
> >
> > > > The question that really ought to be answered before doing any of this
> > > > is why DELETE privilege shouldn't be sufficient to allow TRUNCATE.
> > >
> > > TRUNCATE doesn't follow MVCC...
> >
> > We can certainly talk about fixing that. (And CLUSTER at the same time,
> > I think.)
>
> The issue is that it seems to be intractable to retain MVCC-ness *and*
> provide the performance savings TRUNCATE gives. If you can solve that
> problem then we could get rid of TRUNCATE and implement
> DELETE-without-WHERE using that magic.

Let me qualify that- in cases where there aren't row-level triggers or
other things which would prevent it from being possible anyway.

Thanks,

Stephen