Thank you for clarifying this point. And yes of course grantor, sorry for the confusion.
Regards, Fabrice On Mon, Aug 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Fabrice Chapuis <fabrice636...@gmail.com> writes: > > I do the following command when connecting locally with user postgres > > SET ROLE asuperrole; -- asuperrole has superuser privilege > > GRANT SELECT ON pg_statistic TO test_role; > > > why the grantee is postgres? > > You mean "grantor", no? When a superuser does grant/revoke on some > object, it's recorded as though the object owner issued the command. > And postgres is the owner of the pg_statistic table. > > regards, tom lane >
