Christopher Maier wrote:

> However, I need to restrict deletion based on, for lack of a better
> term, "where" the DELETE command comes from.  I do not want someone
> sitting at a psql console to be able to type:
>
> DELETE FROM my_table WHERE deduced IS TRUE;

Looks like you should revoke DELETE privilege from plain users, and
have your delete trigger be a security definer function.  There would be
another security definer function to delete non-deduced rows which users
can call directly.

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