REASSIGN OWNED(7)        PostgreSQL 16.2 Documentation       REASSIGN OWNED(7)

NAME
       REASSIGN_OWNED - change the ownership of database objects owned by a
       database role

SYNOPSIS
       REASSIGN OWNED BY { old_role | CURRENT_ROLE | CURRENT_USER | SESSION_USER } [, ...]
                      TO { new_role | CURRENT_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 membership 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 22.4 for more discussion.

COMPATIBILITY
       The REASSIGN OWNED command is a PostgreSQL extension.

SEE ALSO
       DROP OWNED (DROP_OWNED(7)), DROP ROLE (DROP_ROLE(7)), ALTER DATABASE
       (ALTER_DATABASE(7))

PostgreSQL 16.2                      2024                    REASSIGN OWNED(7)