thanks for this- worked a treat!
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Changing a database owner on postgres 7.3
> From: devrim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: rcgeorge23@xxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:26:00 +0300
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 12:33 +0000, Richard George wrote:
> > I've run into trouble attempting to change the owner of a particular
> > database. The offending line is -
> >
> > ALTER DATABASE test OWNER TO epg;
>
> There is no way to change ownership of a database with ALTER DATABASE in
> 7.3.X .
>
> > Can someone suggest an alternative way of changing the owner of a
> > database for 7.3?
>
> AFAIR there is no quick-and-easy way to do that for 7.3. I'd create a
> new database with a new username, and I'd use the old database as the
> template:
>
> CREATE DATABASE newdb WITH OWNER newuser TEMPLATE olddb;
>
> could work for you.
>
> Regards,
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