Re: How to remove a superuser

My understanding is that, in 8.1, you'd need to revoke the privileges
before being able to drop the role/user.

8.2 seems to have two additional nice commands: "drop owned" command to
remove the objects owned by the user, and "reassign owned" to change the
ownership and give the objects to someone else.

http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/sql-drop-owned.html
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/sql-reassign-owned.html

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[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Richard Ray
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 12:23 PM
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [ADMIN] How to remove a superuser

I need to drop a superuser account. I get

dba=# drop role bram;
ERROR: role "bram" cannot be dropped because some objects depend on it
DETAIL: owner of view teacher
owner of type teacher
owner of view temp1
owner of type temp1
...

What is the preferred method.

Thanks
Richard Ray

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