Re: DISABLE TRIGGER doc wrong?

On 8/25/25 10:24, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM Pavel Luzanov <p(dot)luzanov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> wrote:
>> On 25.08.2025 19:19, Dominique Devienne wrote:
>> Simple experiment shows that it is still up to date:
>
>> alice(at)postgres(17.5)=> alter table t disable trigger "RI_ConstraintTrigger_a_1260370";
>> ERROR: permission denied: "RI_ConstraintTrigger_a_1260370" is a system trigger
>> alice(at)postgres(17.5)=> \c - postgres
>> You are now connected to database "postgres" as user "postgres".
>> postgres(at)postgres(17.5)=# alter table t disable trigger "RI_ConstraintTrigger_a_1260370";
>> ALTER TABLE
>
> We were using ALL, successfully but incorrectly, and are now using
> USER, successfully.
> Not a named constraint trigger as you did. Could it be ALL implicitly
> excludes such constraint triggers, when not SUPERUSER? And thus, as
> the table owner, ALL == USER, implicitly? If that's the case, then the
> doc still needs clarifications IMHO. --DD
>
>

I am not seeing it:

select version();
version

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 17.6 (Ubuntu 17.6-1.pgdg22.04+1) on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu,
compiled by gcc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0, 64-bit

create table test_table_parent(id integer primary key, fld varchar);
create table test_table_child(id integer primary key, fld_child varchar,
parent_id integer references test_table_parent on update cascade);

\dt+ test_table_child
List of tables
Schema | Name | Type | Owner | Persistence | Access
method | Size | Description
--------+------------------+-------+---------+-------------+---------------+------------+-------------
public | test_table_child | table | db_user | permanent | heap
| 8192 bytes | NULL

\du+ db_user
List of roles
Role name | Attributes | Description
-----------+------------+-------------
db_user | |

alter table test_table_child disable trigger all;
ERROR: permission denied: "RI_ConstraintTrigger_c_121933" is a system
trigger

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Adrian Klaver
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