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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: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:45:32 -0700
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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.

David J.


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