The docs (new and old) explicitly state you can do this; see for example
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/sql-dropuser.html
But ISTM that in such a case the user's objects should possibly be
reassigned to the database owner (who can't be dropped), in kinda the
same way that a *nix process that is orphaned is reparented to init. I
guess that might break other things, or would it?
Or maybe we need 'drop user foo with cascade'.
Or both.
cheers
andrew
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I dropped the owner of a table (with no complaints), and now I get this:
>
>psql:
>
>asdf=# \dt
> List of relations
> Schema | Name | Type | Owner
>--------+------+-------+------------
> public | a1 | table |
>
>pg_dump:
>
>pg_dump: WARNING: owner of data type "a1" appears to be invalid
>pg_dump: WARNING: owner of table "a1" appears to be invalid
>
>Didn't there used to be a check that occurred, preventing you from dropping
>a user who owned objects?
>
>Chris
>
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