On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:39 PM, David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 06:20:37PM +0300, Teodor Sigaev wrote: >> > Please find attached a patch which makes it possible to disallow >> > UPDATEs and DELETEs which lack a WHERE clause. As this changes query >> > behavior, I've made the new GUCs PGC_SUSET. >> > >> > What say? >> >> DELETE FROM tbl WHERE true; ? > > I specifically left this possible so the feature when turned on allows > people to do updates with an always-true qualifier if that's what they > actually mean to do. > > In case it wasn't clear, unqualified updates and deletes are permitted > by default. This patch allows people to set it so they're disallowed.
I join with others in thinking it's a reasonable contrib module. In fact, I already wrote it for my 2015 PGCon tutorial. Well, the "delete" part, anyway. https://github.com/robertmhaas/introduction-to-postgresql-hacking/compare/master...robertmhaas:delete_needs_where -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
