Hi Tom and Shoaib, Thanks for all your help, the penny dropped and I now understand what you meant by SYSID. I have traced the usename and all is now well. Regards, Sandy Computer Officer, RA Certification Manager Department of Computer Science - UWA Llandinam Building Penglais Campus Aberystwyth Ceredigion Wales - UK SY23 3DB Tel: (01970)-622433 Fax: (01970)-628536 -----Original Message----- From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 15 December 2006 15:50 To: Shoaib Mir Cc: Sandy Spence; pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [ADMIN] invalid types and tables "Shoaib Mir" <shoaibmir@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Well I will not recommend deleting rows like this from the meta data, > but if I will rather try using ALTER TABLE and ALTER TYPE to assign an > owner for the missing user referenced type or table No, just create a new user with the same usesysid as is shown as the owner in pg_class etc. See the SYSID option to CREATE USER. (FWIW, more recent PG versions prevent you from dropping users that still own objects.) regards, tom lane
