My understanding is that, in 8.1, you'd need to revoke the privileges before being able to drop the role/user. 8.2 seems to have two additional nice commands: "drop owned" command to remove the objects owned by the user, and "reassign owned" to change the ownership and give the objects to someone else. http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/sql-drop-owned.html http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/sql-reassign-owned.html -- Husam http://firstdba.googlepages.com -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Ray Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 12:23 PM To: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ADMIN] How to remove a superuser I need to drop a superuser account. I get dba=# drop role bram; ERROR: role "bram" cannot be dropped because some objects depend on it DETAIL: owner of view teacher owner of type teacher owner of view temp1 owner of type temp1 ... What is the preferred method. Thanks Richard Ray ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match ********************************************************************** This message contains confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is legally privileged. If you are not the addressee, or the person responsible for delivering it to the addressee, you are hereby notified that reading, disseminating, distributing or copying this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message by mistake, please immediately notify us by replying to the message and delete the original message immediately thereafter. Thank you. FADLD Tag **********************************************************************
