Re: Cannot delete role because it depends on "default privileges"

Dear Tom!

The DB_X dropped, so I can't choose it as "actual database".

I tried this in a neutral database:

drop owned by role_x;

But nothing happened, the error is same.

As I read it have "CASCADE" mode, but I'm afraid to start it, because I
don't know what will happen.

It is a really used server, so if I do something wrong, I will killed by my
boss... :-(

To complicate the things my coll. renamed this role to "role_x_to_delete",
and created a new role_x, and a new db_x database.

So if the PG uses "names" and not identifiers in the background, I will
be in trouble...

Thanks

2016-10-21 15:27 GMT+02:00 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:

> Durumdara <durumdara(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > We have a ROLE_MAIN.
> > This gave default privileges to all next objects in DB_X to ROLE_X.
> > Somebody dropped DB_X, and later he tried to drop ROLE_X.
> > But he got errors in PGAdmin.
> > ERROR: role "role_x" cannot be dropped because some objects depend on it
> > DETAIL: privileges for default privileges on new types belonging to role
> > role_main
>
> See DROP OWNED BY.
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/role-removal.html
>
> regards, tom lane
>