Re: Fav. Urban Legend...take two

Yes, I've seen that also.

Bugs 299259 and BUG:207590 describe this change in behavior, and why it was done, but those bugs are not accessible on MetaLink.

Jared

On Thursday 14 March 2002 15:03, Jonathan Lewis wrote:
> I hate to perpetuate a legend, but I THINK there
> was an early version where 'delete any table'
> was good enough. I seem to remember a period
> where there was a big fuss from people saying
> "I've upgraded to version 7.0.16-ish and my truncates
> are not longer working" - and the problem was that
> they had granted 'delete any table' and the upgrade
> required 'drop any table'.
>
>
> I also have a vague memory of seeing a release note
> (readme.doc) which highlighted this issue.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Date: 14 March 2002 21:26
>
> |the docs are (finally) correct.
> |
> |you have ALWAYS needed "drop any table" to truncate someone else's
> |table. The docs have always said you needed "delete any table". Docs
> |(horrors! impossible to believe!) were wrong

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