ALTER USER
ALTER USER
ALTER USER - change a database role
Synopsis
ALTER USERrole_specification[ WITH ]option[ ... ] whereoptioncan be: SUPERUSER | NOSUPERUSER | CREATEDB | NOCREATEDB | CREATEROLE | NOCREATEROLE | INHERIT | NOINHERIT | LOGIN | NOLOGIN | REPLICATION | NOREPLICATION | BYPASSRLS | NOBYPASSRLS | CONNECTION LIMITconnlimit| [ ENCRYPTED ] PASSWORD 'password' | VALID UNTIL 'timestamp' ALTER USERnameRENAME TOnew_nameALTER USER {role_specification| ALL } [ IN DATABASEdatabase_name] SETconfiguration_parameter{ TO | = } {value| DEFAULT } ALTER USER {role_specification| ALL } [ IN DATABASEdatabase_name] SETconfiguration_parameterFROM CURRENT ALTER USER {role_specification| ALL } [ IN DATABASEdatabase_name] RESETconfiguration_parameterALTER USER {role_specification| ALL } [ IN DATABASEdatabase_name] RESET ALL whererole_specificationcan be:role_name| CURRENT_USER | SESSION_USER
Description
ALTER USER
is now an alias for
ALTER ROLE
.
Compatibility
The
ALTER USER
statement is a
PostgreSQL
extension. The SQL standard
leaves the definition of users to the implementation.