Re: Bug, Feature, or what else?

Andreas Kretschmer wrote:
> i have created a normal user (no superuser) akretschmer01 and another normal
> user ak02. All fine.
> The first user is the owner of the db.
>
>
> As user akretschmer01 i granted:

> db115150=> grant all on schema public to ak02;

> There are no tables or other objects createt as user ak02.
>
>
> Now i switched to user postgres (superuser):

> db115150=# drop user ak02
> db115150-# ;
> FEHLER: kann Rolle »ak02« nicht löschen, weil andere Objekte davon abhängen
> DETAIL: Privilegien für Schema public
>
> (role ak02 cannot be dropped because some objects depend on it, Detail:
> privileges for schema public)
>
> I can revoke all on database from user:
>
> db115150=# revoke all on database db115150 from ak02;
> REVOKE
> db115150=# drop user ak02;
> FEHLER: kann Rolle »ak02« nicht löschen, weil andere Objekte davon abhängen
> DETAIL: Privilegien für Schema public
>
>
> but still i can't drop the user.
>
>
> I can do that with 9.1.8 and 9.1.1 too, same problem.
>
>
> How can i drop a user as SUPERUSER (!) with all privileges?

You have to revoke the permissions that you granted.

There are two options:

db115150=# DROP OWNED BY ak02;
DROP OWNED

or

db115150=# REVOKE ALL ON SCHEMA public FROM ak02;
REVOKE

Then you can drop the user.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe