accessed through <structname>cities</structname>. This preserves the appearance

that the data is (also) in the parent table. But

the <structname>capitals</structname> table could not be updated directly

without an additional grant. In a similar way, the parent table's row

without an additional grant. Two exceptions to this rule are

<command>TRUNCATE</command> and <command>LOCK TABLE</command>,

where permissions on the child tables are always checked,

whether they are processed directly or recursively via those commands

performed on the parent table.

</para>

<para>

In a similar way, the parent table's row

security policies (see <xref linkend="ddl-rowsecurity"/>) are applied to

rows coming from child tables during an inherited query. A child table's

policies, if any, are applied only when it is the table explicitly named