From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Sam Stearns <sam.stearns@dat.com>
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        Dugan Kniesteadt <dugan.kniesteadt@dat.com>,
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Subject: Re: INSERT Permission Denied
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Sam Stearns <sam.stearns@dat.com> writes:
> I have an INSERT:
> that's failing with permission denied on the schema:
> ERROR:  permission denied for schema treg
> LINE 1: SELECT 1 FROM ONLY "treg"."cd_combined_offices" x WHERE "com...
>                            ^

You need to grant USAGE permission on that schema.  It's roughly
comparable to search privilege on a directory in most OSes.

			regards, tom lane