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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Dominique Devienne <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: DROP ROLE as SUPERUSER
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:29:40 -0700
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM Dominique Devienne <[email protected]>
wrote:

> But that's not much better. It's basically like the SET ROLE to the
> GRANTOR I did.
> I guess what I want is GRANTED BY ANYONE! And not have to figure out
> GRANTOR(s).
>

Your stated use case is dropping a role.  Does the combination of reassign
and drop owned not fulfill the requirements?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/role-removal.html

Also, you had to know the role you wanted to drop so you already figured
out the grantor.

David J.


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