It's been discussed a fair bit in the mailing lists but I don't think it's made the documentation. The triggers use SELECT FOR UPDATE to get the row locks but that forces the update permission need. In 7.1 this should be gone (Peter E had a patch to remove the most common cases of this). Stephan Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Wendel Leibe wrote: > I think I have found a bug with Postgres' permissions. I have combed > through the documentation, but I haven't been able to find an explanation > for the following problem. > > First of all here is what I am running. > Postgress version 7.0.2 , > OS Linux Red Hat 6.2 > Kernel version 2.2.17 >