September 26, 2024: PostgreSQL 17 Released!
Unsupported versions: 8.0 / 7.4 / 7.3 / 7.2 / 7.1
This documentation is for an unsupported version of PostgreSQL.
You may want to view the same page for the current version, or one of the other supported versions listed above instead.

7.2. Groups

As in Unix, groups are a way of logically grouping users. To create a group, use

CREATE GROUP name
To add users to or remove users from a group, respectively, user
ALTER GROUP name ADD USER uname1, ...
ALTER GROUP name DROP USER uname1, ...