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

Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)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