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From: Naveen Kumar <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Sam Stearns <[email protected]>
Cc: Pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
Cc: Henry Ashu <[email protected]>
Cc: Julie Mather <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: dropuser error
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 03:00:05 +0530
Message-ID: <CADk76jpfQc23rr9FWwFy1MHr8PRBZA1qph+c0sPT7Y5AN+o5gg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Check in *csbtest *DB for dependent objects. And there might be default
privileges set for that role.

Thanks & Regards,
Naveen Kumar .M,
Lead DBA
Mobile: 7755929449.



On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 2:57 AM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sam Stearns <[email protected]> writes:
> > I'm trying to drop a user but getting the following error:
>
> > dropuser: error: removal of role "dalec" failed: ERROR:  role "dalec"
> > cannot be dropped because some objects depend on it
> > DETAIL:  262 objects in database csbtest
>
> If the display looks like that rather than itemizing the objects,
> it's because they are in a different database of the cluster.
> You need to connect to the "csbtest" database and then you can
> drop or reassign ownership of those objects.
>
> (The subtext here is that users/roles are shared across the
> whole cluster, but most object kinds are local to one database.
> You can't "see" the details of objects in a different database
> than the one you're connected to.  DROP USER knows that there
> are some dependencies, but not much more.)
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>
>
>

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