Re:

AC Gomez <antklc(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> REASSIGN OWNED BY old_role TO masteruser;
> DROP OWNED BY old_role;
> DROP USER old_role;

> The consensus online is that these are the steps to be taken to
> successfully remove roles, yet we get this error below:
> ERROR: role "old_role" cannot be dropped because some objects depend on it
> DETAIL: privileges for database the_database 96 objects in database
> the_database SQL state: 2BP01

> What is it that we could be missing here?

You need to do the REASSIGN OWNED and DROP OWNED steps in each
database of the cluster that old_role has any objects/privileges in.

You might need a manual revoke on "the_database" too; I'm not sure
if DROP OWNED does anything about DB-level privileges.

regards, tom lane