Madeleine Theile wrote:
> Hi,
>
> first of all:
> I use Postgres-version: 7.3.9 and uname -a gives:
> Linux 2.4.21-286-smp4G
>
> Now here's the problem:
> I have several superusers in my database and some normal users that only
> have access to the data by views.
>
> After I've dropped one of the superusers that created and thus
> owns some of the views and reinstalled it again with a different usesysid
> the normal users cannot access their views (that are owned by the
> aforementioned superuser) any longer.
>
> ERROR: pg_class_aclcheck: invalid user id 113
>
> The workaround I tried without dropping the old views and creating new
> views is to alter the owner of the mentioned views. The error stays the same.
>
> I would have expected that the old usesysid that obviousl is the sole
> reference to the owner of the view was then updated to the new usesysid.
> Thus it is impossible to recover from the problem/mistake without
> dropping and creating the views again.
> Probably the problem will be the same with normal tables which I didn't
> check.
>
> Is this intention or a bug? What else could I try?
Recreate the user using the original user id:
test=> \h create user
Command: CREATE USER
Description: define a new database user account
Syntax:
CREATE USER name [ [ WITH ] option [ ... ] ]
where option can be:
SYSID uid
^^^^^
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