On 27/07/16 06:11, David Fetter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 03:24:28AM +0200, Vik Fearing wrote: >> On 27/07/16 03:15, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >>> On 7/26/16 6:14 PM, Vik Fearing wrote: >>>> As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, you can just do WHERE true >>>> to get around it, so why on Earth have it PGC_SUSET? >>> >>> I'm not sure whether it's supposed to guard against typos and >>> possibly buggy SQL string concatenation in application code. So >>> it would help against accidental mistakes, whereas putting a WHERE >>> TRUE in there would be an intentional override. >> >> If buggy SQL string concatenation in application code is your >> argument, quite a lot of them add "WHERE true" so that they can just >> append a bunch of "AND ..." clauses without worrying if it's the >> first (or last, whatever), so I'm not sure this is protecting >> anything. > > I am sure that I'm not the only one who's been asked for this feature > because people other than me have piped up on this thread to that very > effect.
Sure. I'm just saying that I think it is poorly designed. I think it would be far better to error out if the command affects x rows, or an estimated y% of the table. Doing that, and also allowing the user to turn it off, would solve the problem as I understand your presentation of it. > I understand that there may well be lots of really meticulous people > on this list, people who would never accidentally do an unqualified > DELETE on a table in production, but I can't claim to be one of them > because I have, and not just once. It's under once a decade, but even > that's too many. That doesn't mean that requiring a WHERE clause -- without even looking at what's in it -- is a good idea. Why not start by turning off autocommit, for example? > I'm not proposing to make this feature default, or even available by > default, but I am totally certain that this is the kind of feature > people would really appreciate, even if it doesn't prevent every > catastrophe. This kind of feature, why not. This feature, no. -- Vik Fearing +33 6 46 75 15 36 http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers