Re: dropping role w/dependent objects - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ed L.
Subject Re: dropping role w/dependent objects
Date
Msg-id 200704041641.34084.pgsql@bluepolka.net
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In response to Re: dropping role w/dependent objects  ("Ed L." <pgsql@bluepolka.net>)
Responses Re: dropping role w/dependent objects  ("Ed L." <pgsql@bluepolka.net>)
Re: dropping role w/dependent objects  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Wednesday April 4 2007 4:39 pm, Ed L. wrote:
> On Wednesday April 4 2007 4:35 pm, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Note that you can give the objects owned by that role to
> > someone else with REASSIGN OWNED, and drop the objects with
> > DROP OWNED (note that they act differently regarding grants;
> > see the docs)
>
> Yes, but how do identify what they are so that I know if I
> want to DROP OWNED them?

The REASSIGN OWNED appears to be insufficient:

% psql -c "reassign owned by mygroup to mydba"
REASSIGN OWNED
% psql -c "drop group mygroup"
ERROR:  role "mygroup" cannot be dropped because some objects
depend on it
DETAIL:  225 objects in this database

Thanks,
Ed

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