From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>
cc: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>,
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Subject: Re: schema privileges and drop role
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Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 7:03 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
> wrote:
>> "A role cannot be removed if it is still referenced in any database of
>> the cluster; an error will be raised if so. Before dropping the role,
>> you must drop all the objects it owns (or reassign their ownership) and
>> revoke any privileges the role has been granted on other objects. The
>> REASSIGN OWNED and DROP OWNED commands can be useful for this purpose;
>> see Section 22.4 for more discussion."

> Cool. I gave it a try, but came up with the same error:

> test_db=# REASSIGN OWNED by legacy_owner TO new_owner;
> REASSIGN OWNED
> Time: 0.212 ms
> test_db=# drop role legacy_owner;
> ERROR:  role "legacy_owner" cannot be dropped because some objects depend
> on it

You need to do DROP OWNED as well to get rid of those privileges.
REASSIGN OWNED only changes the ownership of ownable objects.

> I'd still like to see how to list the "privileges for schema
> public",

"\dn+ public" in psql would do that.

			regards, tom lane