Re: can't revoke users

On Feb 8, 2008 6:01 PM, Scott Cotton <scott(dot)cotton(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I have a database that I dropped some users on. However, when doing dumps
> and restores, it became clear that these users were still being referenced
> by sysid. So I created new users and assigned them the sysids of the users I
> had dropped.
>
> So now I went to revoke the privileges for the new (temp) users. However,
> some tables I can revoke the users and some I cannot.
> I also tried to drop one of the new users I created and it created the same
> situation as before, where the user still shows up with priveleges, but
> instead of listing a name it lists a sysid.

I've had to deal with stuff like this before.

What exactly are the errors are you getting, and what version of
PostgreSQL are you running?

Peter