Re: DISABLE TRIGGER doc wrong?

Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
To: Dominique Devienne <ddevienne@gmail.com>, pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-08-25T16:24:50Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On 8/25/25 09:19, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> or I'm reading it wrong? --DD
> 
>  From https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-altertable.html#SQL-ALTERTABLE-DESC-DISABLE-ENABLE-TRIGGER:
>> Disabling or enabling internally generated constraint triggers requires superuser privileges
> 
> We were disabling triggers as the owner of the table just fine, no
> SUPERUSER involved. So is the doc out-of-date?

 From the sentence before the above:

"... internally generated constraint triggers, such as those that are 
used to implement foreign key constraints or deferrable uniqueness and 
exclusion constraints)."

> 
> PS: By mistake... We were ALTER TABLE {}.{} DISABLE TRIGGER ALL
>    when we meant ALTER TABLE {}.{} DISABLE TRIGGER USER
> 
> 


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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com