From: Dmitry Tkach <dmitry@openratings.com>
Subject: Re: Preventing DELETEs
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:17:43 -0400
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I think this should work:

alter table mytable owner to postgres;
grant all on my table to public;
revoke delete on my table from public;

I hope, it helps...

Dima

Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote:
> Hi ,
> 
> I have a created a database and a table in it,
> 
> I want to prevent "DELETES" on the table in this
> database by everyone except superuser postgres.
> even by me (the creator of this database and table)
> 
> 
> I have tried in many ways (ALTER TABLE REVOKE DELETE .. etc etc)
> 
> but i  always end up with having the permission
> 
> 
> can any one tell me how the prevention can be accomplished?
> 
> thanks in advance.
> 
> regds
> mallah.
> 
> 
> 
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