| From: | Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> | 
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Re: Drop role cascade ? | 
| Date: | 2022-11-18 06:13:24 | 
| Message-ID: | c744908b-befc-07fc-1e3b-d0329cd6d83f@gmail.com | 
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On 11/17/22 17:07, David Gauthier wrote:
> psql (11.5, server 11.3) on linux
>
> Someone who had privileges in a lot of tables/schemas/DBs left the 
> company.  I want to drop that role but "rop role xxx" won't let me 
> because...  "xxx cannot be dropped because some objects depend on it".
>
> Is there a way to just get rid of this role without revoking xxx in all 
> the individual DB objects he has privs too?  Something like "drop role xxx 
> cascade" ?
Had this idea tonight about how to find what is owned by a specific role.  
Haven't tested it, so the syntax might be a bit wrong, and it might not work:
$ pg_dump --schema-only $DATABASE | grep OWNER | grep $OLDEMPLOYEE
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