Re: invalid types and tables

Hi Tom and Shoaib,

Thanks for all your help, the penny dropped and I now understand what you
meant by SYSID.  I have traced the usename and all is now well.

Regards,

Sandy


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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: 15 December 2006 15:50
To: Shoaib Mir
Cc: Sandy Spence; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] invalid types and tables

"Shoaib Mir" <shoaibmir@gmail.com> writes:
> Well I will not recommend deleting rows like this from the meta data,
> but if I will rather try using ALTER TABLE and ALTER TYPE to assign an
> owner for the missing user referenced type or table

No, just create a new user with the same usesysid as is shown as the owner
in pg_class etc.  See the SYSID option to CREATE USER.

(FWIW, more recent PG versions prevent you from dropping users that still
own objects.)

            regards, tom lane