On 2019-Feb-07, Bawol, Brian wrote: > It looks like this is the query that occurs at the same time: > > STATEMENT: SET DateStyle=ISO; SET client_min_messages=notice;UPDATE > pg_settings SET setting = 'escape' WHERE name = 'bytea_output';SET > client_encoding='UNICODE'; > > Does this help? Ah, so pgadmin 4.2 is trying to set bytea_output, which is disallowed; the reason it says "cannot execute SELECT" is that the UPDATE for the view is turned into a "SELECT set_config()" by a view rule. That makes sense. This looks like a pgadmin bug ... -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services