On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
>> By default, a trigger function runs as the table owner, ie it's
> implicitly SEC DEF
>> to the table owner.
>
> Really? That's certainly what I would *want*, but it's not what I've
> seen.
Yeah, not quite consistent with what I've seen.
And it's not obvious that it truly is what you want. An audit trigger
would need to run as the *audit table* owner, which might not be the
same as the user that owns the table on which the trigger fires.
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