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Mastering PostgreSQL 12

You're reading from   Mastering PostgreSQL 12 Advanced techniques to build and administer scalable and reliable PostgreSQL database applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838988821
Length 470 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Hans-Jürgen Schönig Hans-Jürgen Schönig
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Basic Overview FREE CHAPTER
2. PostgreSQL 12 Overview 3. Understanding Transactions and Locking 4. Section 2: Advanced Concepts
5. Making Use of Indexes 6. Handling Advanced SQL 7. Log Files and System Statistics 8. Optimizing Queries for Good Performance 9. Writing Stored Procedures 10. Managing PostgreSQL Security 11. Handling Backup and Recovery 12. Making Sense of Backups and Replication 13. Deciding on Useful Extensions 14. Troubleshooting PostgreSQL 15. Migrating to PostgreSQL 16. Assessment 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Reassigning objects and dropping users

After assigning permissions and restricting access, it can happen that users will be dropped from the system. Unsurprisingly, the commands to do that are the DROP ROLE and DROP USER commands:

test=# \h DROP ROLE
Command: DROP ROLE
Description: remove a database role
Syntax:
DROP ROLE [ IF EXISTS ] name [, ...]

URL: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/sql-droprole.html

Let's 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 new relations belonging to role joe in schema...
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