Re: table permissions

Tom,
you were right, some of the tables were owned by oleg. I changed it and now it
works fine.
So, in order for the table to be updated successfully, it's owner and updating
user must have permissions to do that, right?
thanks a lot,

Oleg

Tom Lane wrote:

> Oleg Lebedev <olebedev(at)waterford(dot)org> writes:
> > I have a superuser root and a regular user oleg. I am trying to insert a
> > new row in table Set, which references table Activity, being logged in
> > as root. I get an error saying:
> > activity: Permission denied.
> > This is very weird because root has all the permissions on every table
> > in the database. Even more strange is that as soon as I grant DELETE
> > privilege to user oleg, the problem disappears and I can add a row to
> > the Set table.
>
> Evidently the update is being done under privileges of user oleg.
> Are you using a view, rule, function, trigger, etc somewhere in there?
> I doubt this would happen with a straightforward INSERT typed at the
> command line, but if the insert command is in a rule or function owned
> by oleg, the game is different ...
>
> regards, tom lane