Re: [HACKERS] Where is it documented what role executes constraint triggers?

Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net> writes:
> From a little experimenting in 9.5, it seems that a referential
> integrity trigger is executed with the identity of the referencED
> table's owner, but I have not been able to find this covered in
> the docs. Is this a documentation oversight, or is it explained
> somewhere I didn't look (or may have skimmed right over it)?

Don't know if it's documented anywhere user-facing, but a look into
the code in ri_triggers.c says we run RI queries as the owner of
whichever table the query touches (the referenced table for verification
of FK inserts, the referencing table when cascading a PK change).
        regards, tom lane


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