Mark Styles-2 wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 02:11:37PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Mark Styles <postgres@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> > Thanks, I managed to clear out the offending dependencies. relowner was >> > actually set correctly, but the pg_shdepend records were wrong. >> >> Hmm ... what actually was in the pg_shdepend entries? > > I guess I should've noted that down eh? From memory, the classid was > the oid of the pg_toast object, the refobjid was the oid of the role, > the deptype was 'o', I don't recall what the other values were. > > I'll keep my eye out for more problems as I work through tidying this > database. > I found this thread online because I have the same problem. So, I thought I'd share what I've discovered. I could not drop a role. pg_dumpall doesn't show any dependencies to this toast table. Here is output (with some information <snipped> to protect the privacy of the company I am working for): <snipped>=# drop role <snipped>; ERROR: role "<snipped>" cannot be dropped because some objects depend on it DETAIL: owner of type pg_toast.pg_toast_51797 1 objects in database <snipped> I found the role in question (with oid = 1237) from pg_roles. Then, I was able to find a list of dependencies: postgres=# select * from pg_shdepend where refobjid=17158; dbid | classid | objid | refclassid | refobjid | deptype -------+---------+-------+------------+----------+--------- 16388 | 1247 | 51802 | 1260 | 17158 | o 52721 | 1247 | 51802 | 1260 | 17158 | o pfacts003=# select * from pg_class where oid = 1247; relname | relnamespace | reltype | relowner | relam | relfilenode | reltablespace | relpages | reltuples | reltoastrelid | reltoastidxid | relhasindex | relisshared | relkind | relnatts | relchecks | reltriggers | relukeys | relfkeys | relrefs | relhasoids | relhaspkey | relhasrules | relhassubclass | relacl ---------+--------------+---------+----------+-------+-------------+---------------+----------+-----------+---------------+---------------+-------------+-------------+---------+----------+-----------+-------------+----------+----------+---------+------------+------------+-------------+----------------+--------------- pg_type | 11 | 71 | 10 | 0 | 1247 | 0 | 8 | 329 | 0 | 0 | t | f | r | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | t | f | f | f | {=r/postgres} (1 row) pfacts003=# select * from pg_class where oid = 1260; relname | relnamespace | reltype | relowner | relam | relfilenode | reltablespace | relpages | reltuples | reltoastrelid | reltoastidxid | relhasindex | relisshared | relkind | relnatts | relchecks | reltriggers | relukeys | relfkeys | relrefs | relhasoids | relhaspkey | relhasrules | relhassubclass | relacl -----------+--------------+---------+----------+-------+-------------+---------------+----------+-----------+---------------+---------------+-------------+-------------+---------+----------+-----------+-------------+----------+----------+---------+------------+------------+-------------+----------------+----------------------------- pg_authid | 11 | 10281 | 10 | 0 | 1260 | 1664 | 1 | 12 | 10290 | 0 | t | t | r | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | t | f | f | f | {postgres=arwdRxt/postgres} (1 row) This may help explain what happened. I can't give any history of the situation since I inherited this database. But, I think the above should be somewhat helpful. Is it possible that the person who first "needed" a toast table gets the type build by default and therefore owns it? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Changing-owner-of-pg_toast-tables-tp21728869p25048954.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general