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From: Dominique Devienne <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: DROP ROLE as SUPERUSER
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:48:20 +0100
Message-ID: <CAFCRh-_3+E3-pmdH+i5jUE-8Z1jJWxxdP3EcFjTbHVWM+oEweg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi. Today I was surprised that REVOKE ALL ON DATABASE FROM ROLE silently
did nothing, even with CASCADE, when I was running it as SUPERUSER,
preventing DROP'ing the ROLE. I had to manually SET ROLE to the GRANTOR, do
the REVOKE, which DID something this time, and then I could DROP the role.

That's hardly convenient :). And I was helping someone else who couldn't
figure out how to drop that role. Isn't there a better way?

I thought SUPERUSER was more powerful that than. Why isn't it?

Thanks, --DD

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