REASSIGN_OWNED(7pg17)

hiii bestie 💖 welcome to the REASSIGN OWNED page (manual page REASSIGN_OWNED, section 7) straight outta the PostgreSQL 17.11 docs ✨

🎀 NAME

REASSIGN_OWNED — change the ownership of database objects owned by a database role. that's the whole vibe: an ownership glow-up, but for database objects 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS

       REASSIGN OWNED BY { old_role | CURRENT_ROLE | CURRENT_USER | SESSION_USER } [, ...]
                      TO { new_role | CURRENT_ROLE | CURRENT_USER | SESSION_USER }

🌸 DESCRIPTION

REASSIGN OWNED tells the system: bestie, please change the ownership of database objects owned by any of the old_roles over to new_role ✨

🦋 PARAMETERS

• old_role — The name of a role. The ownership of all the objects within the current database, and of all shared objects (databases, tablespaces), owned by this role will be reassigned to new_role.
• new_role — The name of the role that will be made the new owner of the affected objects.

💖 NOTES

• REASSIGN OWNED is often used to prepare for the removal of one or more roles. Because REASSIGN OWNED does not affect objects within other databases, it is usually necessary to execute this command in each database that contains objects owned by a role that is to be removed.
• ⚠️ heads up: REASSIGN OWNED requires membership on both the source role(s) and the target role.
• The DROP OWNED command is an alternative that simply drops all the database objects owned by one or more roles.
• The REASSIGN OWNED command does not affect any privileges granted to the old_roles on objects that are not owned by them. Likewise, it does not affect default privileges created with ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES. Use DROP OWNED to revoke such privileges.
• See Section 21.4 for more discussion.

🔥 COMPATIBILITY

The REASSIGN OWNED command is a PostgreSQL extension. it's giving homegrown PostgreSQL magic ✨

👑 SEE ALSO

• DROP OWNED (DROP_OWNED(7))
• DROP ROLE (DROP_ROLE(7))
• ALTER DATABASE (ALTER_DATABASE(7))

okay that's the page, bestie 🫶 source/version: PostgreSQL 17.11; date: 2026; manual page: REASSIGN OWNED(7). go forth and reassign responsibly 💅✨