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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: Delete failing with -- permission denied
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anand086 <anand086@gmail.com> writes:
> Delete from table test.entities_all is failing with "permission denied for
> relation". The table from which row has to be deleted, is referenced by
> another table "attribute_types" with ON DELETE CASCADE.

> I tried deleting the row from attribute_types table and then deleting from
> test.entities_all succeed.

Probably you have permissions to do such deletion, but the owner of the
entities_all table does not.  FK CASCADE queries are run as the owner
of the table in question.

			regards, tom lane


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