SQL Commands / Roles & Privileges
ALTER USER
Read the PG 18 manualchange a database role
Reading PG 18current·documented in 30 of 30 versions, 6.4 to 20
Syntax
ALTER USER role_specification [ WITH ] option [ ... ]
where option can be:
SUPERUSER | NOSUPERUSER
| CREATEDB | NOCREATEDB
| CREATEROLE | NOCREATEROLE
| INHERIT | NOINHERIT
| LOGIN | NOLOGIN
| REPLICATION | NOREPLICATION
| BYPASSRLS | NOBYPASSRLS
| CONNECTION LIMIT connlimit
| [ ENCRYPTED ] PASSWORD 'password' | PASSWORD NULL
| VALID UNTIL 'timestamp'
ALTER USER name RENAME TO new_name
ALTER USER { role_specification | ALL } [ IN DATABASE database_name ] SET configuration_parameter { TO | = } { value | DEFAULT }
ALTER USER { role_specification | ALL } [ IN DATABASE database_name ] SET configuration_parameter FROM CURRENT
ALTER USER { role_specification | ALL } [ IN DATABASE database_name ] RESET configuration_parameter
ALTER USER { role_specification | ALL } [ IN DATABASE database_name ] RESET ALL
where role_specification can be:
role_name
| CURRENT_ROLE
| CURRENT_USER
| SESSION_USER
Syntax diagrams
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role_specification
Description
ALTER USER is now an alias for ALTER ROLE.
Compatibility
The ALTER USER statement is a PostgreSQL extension. The SQL standard leaves the definition of users to the implementation.
See Also
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Related entries
Definition snapshot: b7bd9cda · English manual source