Re: How to drop user if objects depend on it

From: "Andrus" <kobruleht2(at)hot(dot)ee>
To: "Melvin Davidson" <melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Adrian Klaver" <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
Cc: "Thom Brown" <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, "pgsql-general" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to drop user if objects depend on it
Date: 2015-10-07 14:48:45
Message-ID: C5FD8E1CDD614B778F8F5CED24EBD544@dell2
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Hi!

>Can you connect as user postgres? IE: psql -U postgres -d <yourdb>

Applicaton has admin users which should be able to delete other users.
Those users dont have superuser rights.

I can connect as user postgres for testing only.
I'm looking for a way to delete users without superuser right.

>If so, then you should have the ability to execute the commands without any
>problem.

I tried in database ktp :

reassign owned by farukkugay to postgres;
drop user farukkugay ;

This causes error

ERROR: role "farukkugay" cannot be dropped because some objects depend on
it
DETAIL: privileges for schema public

So even superuser cannot delete.

Andrus.

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