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From: Dominique Devienne <[email protected]>
To: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: DROP ROLE as SUPERUSER
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:02:24 +0100
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On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM David G. Johnston <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Friday, February 21, 2025, Dominique Devienne <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Dominique Devienne <[email protected]> writes:
>>> > The point I'm trying to make, is that "hunting down" grantor(s) to
>>> connect
>>> > to DB(s) to be able to "force drop" a ROLE is a PITA. And I really wish
>>> > there
>>> > was an easier way to drop a role in that situation. --DD
>>>
>>> REASSIGN OWNED then DROP OWNED is the recommended path.
>>>
>>
>> Hi. Am I missing something? foobar does not OWN anything in this case.
>> So I don't see how these recommendations are relevant to this particular
>> case. --DD
>>
>
> From “drop owned”:
>
>  Any privileges granted to the given roles on objects in the current
> database or on shared objects (databases, tablespaces, configuration
> parameters) will also be revoked.
>
> So, the command does more than the name suggests.
>

OK, thanks Tom and David. I was misled by the name indeed. --DD

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