Permission denied as superuser?

Question

Hi, I came across an issue that's somewhat concerning.  
Recently on our QA DB, I have been unable to query one of the views, even as a superuser.  
  
Querying the view

```
qa=# select count(*) from warehouse.v_quarterly_cohorts;
ERROR:  42501: permission denied for relation account_age
LOCATION:  aclcheck_error, /home/ec2-user/padb/src/pg/src/backend/catalog/aclchk.c:2182
```

Querying the table that threw the error

```
qa=# select count(*) from warehouse.account_age;
 count
-------
  7022
(1 row)
```

Proof that I'm a superuser

```
qa=# select usename, usecreatedb, usesuper from pg_user where usename = current_user;
 usename | usecreatedb | usesuper
---------+-------------+----------
 admin   | t           | t
(1 row)
```

The only thing I can think of is that I recently changed the owner of the table. The context there is that I wanted to demote an external user (data pipeline user) from being a superuser, but wanted to preserve its ability to truncate certain tables, so I set it to be the owner of the table. But since my current user is a superuser, I don't see why this should be an issue.  
  
Any ideas?  
  
Thanks!

Answer

@klarson, interesting. Changing the view owner to be the same as the the table ended up working.  
I guess when querying a view, permissions are a function of the _creator_, not the _invoker_ ?

Answer

Hi mmasseth,   
  
I believe the privileges of the creator apply to what the view needs to execute the defining query and privileges of the invoker determine if the view can be used.   
  
Glad it worked out for you.  
  
-Kurt

Answer

HI mmasseth,  
  
Could there be a conflict in view owner and table owner, or in the view owners privilege to select from the table that was introduced when you changed the table ownership?  
  
-Kurt

Permission denied as superuser?

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