Re: DROP ROLE as SUPERUSER

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: DROP ROLE as SUPERUSER
Date: 2025-02-20 16:29:40
Message-ID: CAKFQuwYxPq4UNkiRODjQu8KkqOE9G0r1CpoX6ZvfiGab62N9dw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> But that's not much better. It's basically like the SET ROLE to the
> GRANTOR I did.
> I guess what I want is GRANTED BY ANYONE! And not have to figure out
> GRANTOR(s).
>

Your stated use case is dropping a role. Does the combination of reassign
and drop owned not fulfill the requirements?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/role-removal.html

Also, you had to know the role you wanted to drop so you already figured
out the grantor.

David J.

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