Reassigning objects and dropping users
After assigning permissions and restricting access on various levels, it can happen that users are dropped from the system. Unsurprisingly, the commands to do this are the DROP ROLE and DROP USER commands. Here is the syntax of DROP ROLE:
test=# \h DROP ROLE Command: DROP ROLE Description: remove a database role Syntax: DROP ROLE [ IF EXISTS ] name [, ...] URL: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-droprole.html
Once the syntax of DROP ROLE has been discussed, we can give it a try. The following listing shows how this works:
test=# DROP ROLE joe; ERROR: role "joe" cannot be dropped because some objects depend on it DETAIL: target of policy joe_pol_3 on table t_person target of policy joe_pol_2 on table t_person target of policy joe_pol_1 on table t_person privileges for table t_person owner of table t_user owner of sequence t_user_id_seq owner of default privileges on...
