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* Cannot drop role
@ 2017-02-13 18:43 Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com>
  2017-02-13 18:48 ` Re: Cannot drop role Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
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From: Steven Hirsch @ 2017-02-13 18:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-admin

I've seen one or two mentions of this problem with no applicable solution. 
I have a case where I cannot drop a role because "...5 objects depend on 
it" (according to pgAdmin 3).  When I connect to the database that holds 
those objects (they are not named) and try to drop the role I get an error 
message:

  [Error Code: 0, SQL State: XX000]  ERROR: could not find tuple for 
default ACL 2243075

Even after trying a number of queries that are purported to list grants 
and ownerships for given ids I can turn up nothing that references the 
role by name.

At this point I suspect there's something corrupted in the system catalog. 
How can I find the table entry (or entries) that reference that 
identifier?  The fact that the message is issued suggests a link somewhere 
but I cannot locate it.

Many thanks!

Steve


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* Re: Cannot drop role
  2017-02-13 18:43 Cannot drop role Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com>
@ 2017-02-13 18:48 ` Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
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From: Alvaro Herrera @ 2017-02-13 18:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com>; +Cc: pgsql-admin

Steven Hirsch wrote:

> At this point I suspect there's something corrupted in the system catalog.

Yes, clearly.

> How can I find the table entry (or entries) that reference that identifier?
> The fact that the message is issued suggests a link somewhere but I cannot
> locate it.

Look in pg_shdepend.  Probably somebody deleted rows from pg_default_acl
(and who knows what else) rather than using DDL commands, which is what
they should have done.

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