Re: Trying to change the owner of some tables

2015-06-25 5:42 GMT+02:00 John Scalia <jayknowsunix(at)gmail(dot)com>:

> Thanks guys, I was not aware of that command, but it did NOT succeed in
> changing these strangely missing tables. The tables appear, when I try to
> drop the old owner as:
>
> second_schema.partition_table_name_one;
>
> then two, three, etc., I've only been successful using
>
> alter table second_schema.partition_table_name_one owner to userB;
>
> But I'd rather not do that for 2000+ entries.
>
>
The only reason that would explain why you can't see them with \d and in
pg_class is that they are on another database. Same cluster but another
database. You should connect to the other databases and use REASSIGN OWNED
in each of them.

>
> On 6/24/2015 8:01 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:44 PM, John Scalia <jayknowsunix(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to build a new server from a copy of one of our live Dbs, and
>> I imported the schema from there and am now trying to get this new server
>> setup with the right ownership
>> and permissions. All the tables are/were owned by user A, and I've
>> changed most of them to user B (names changed to protect the innocent,
>> etc.,) However, some tables from the
>> pg_dump I used to grab the schema, do not show up using \d nor can I see
>> them in pg_class. I only found them when I tried to drop user A and psql
>> complained. They appear to be in a
>> different schema and I could change them one at a time, but there are
>> more than 2200 of these. For the tables I've already changed, I just
>> performed an update on pg_class where
>> relowner = numeric ID of user A to set that to the numeric ID of user B.
>>
>> Now, this is a 9.2 server on CentOS, but I've not seen this behavior
>> anywhere before. Where else should I see these? The only success I've had
>> is \d+ new_schema.* and that doesn't
>> help me change them.
>>
>
> ​ Possibly this...
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-reassign-owned.html
> ​
> David J.
>
>
>

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