Re: How to remove a superuser

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:22:53PM -0500, Richard Ray wrote:
>> I need to drop a superuser account. I get
>>
>> dba=# drop role bram;
>> ERROR: role "bram" cannot be dropped because some objects depend on it
>> DETAIL: owner of view teacher
>> owner of type teacher
>> owner of view temp1
>> owner of type temp1
>> ...
>>
>> What is the preferred method.
>
> You need to reassign ownership of those objects to someone else.
>

I can reassign the view but not the type.

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dba=# alter table teacher owner to bjay;
ALTER TABLE
dba=# alter type teacher owner to bjay;
ERROR: "teacher" is a table's row type