On 10/31/07, Jessica Richard <rjessil@yahoo.com> wrote: > I am trying to drop a user but it complained with the following message: > > ERROR: role "joe" cannot be dropped because some objects depend on it > DETAIL: 1 objects in database Jan_test > 1 objects in database Jan > > this user does not own any tables in those two databases. Is there any > command I can use to check all the dependencies on this user?
What version of pgsql are you running? In 8.2 I get a more useful error message for a table that is owned by a user, i.e.:
ERROR: role ... cannot be dropped ... DETAIL: owner of table <tablename>
Have you looked in the logs to see if something like that shows up in them?
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