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.)