Thread: Database ownership

Michael,
Thank you kindly - exactly what I was after.
Cheers
Rudi.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Lamertz" <mlamertz@media-support.de>
To: "Rudi" <rudi@oasis.net.au>
Cc: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 1:22 AM
Subject: Re: [SQL] Database ownership


> On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:28:12PM +1000, Rudi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been searching without any joy so far so I thought I'd ask.
> > Can I change the ownership of a database after the database is created ?
> > Or do I need to drop the database and recreate it using the new database
owner account ?
>
> Nope,
>
> \d pg_database and pg_shadow.  pg_database.datdba is a reference to
> pg_shadow.usesysid.
>
> Find out who's the owner:
>     select a.datname, b.usename from pg_database a, pg_shadow b
>         where a.datdba = b.usesysid;
>
> Update the owner:
>     update pg_database
>         set datdba = (select usesysid from pg_shadow where usename =
'SOMEUSERHERE')
>         where datname = 'SOMEDATABASEHERE';
>
> That should do the trick.
>
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