Stephen Frost <sfrost@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This begs the question of if this is something PG should just allow > rather than denying the update. AFAICT, throwing a permissions error for "UPDATE SET foo = foo" is required by the SQL standard. There's nothing in there about "it's okay depending on what you assign to it". regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general