REASSIGN OWNED
REASSIGN OWNED
REASSIGN OWNED - change the ownership of database objects owned by a database role
Synopsis
REASSIGN OWNED BY { old_role | CURRENT_USER | SESSION_USER } [, ...]
TO { new_role | CURRENT_USER | SESSION_USER }
Description
REASSIGN OWNED
instructs the system to change
the ownership of database objects owned by any of the
old_roles
to
new_role
.
Parameters
-
old_role -
The name of a role. The ownership of all the objects within the current database, and of all shared objects (databases, tablespaces), owned by this role will be reassigned to
new_role. -
new_role -
The name of the role that will be made the new owner of the affected objects.
Notes
REASSIGN OWNED
is often used to prepare for the
removal of one or more roles. Because
REASSIGN
OWNED
does not affect objects within other databases,
it is usually necessary to execute this command in each database
that contains objects owned by a role that is to be removed.
REASSIGN OWNED
requires privileges on both the
source role(s) and the target role.
The DROP OWNED command is an alternative that simply drops all the database objects owned by one or more roles.
The
REASSIGN OWNED
command does not affect any
privileges granted to
the
old_roles
on objects
that are not owned by them. Likewise, it does not affect default
privileges created with
ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES
.
Use
DROP OWNED
to revoke such privileges.
See Section 21.4 for more discussion.
Compatibility
The
REASSIGN OWNED
command is a
PostgreSQL
extension.