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| title | date | description | tags | |
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| Change owner on a PostgreSQL database and all tables | 2012-04-20 | How to change owner on a PostgreSQL database and all tables |
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The solution
Here is the sequence of commande that will change the owner of all objects in a database from a user named "support" to another named "test-support":
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ALTER DATABASE name OWNER TO new_owner
for tbl in psql -qAt -c "select tablename from pg_tables where schemaname = 'public';" YOUR_DB ; do psql -c "alter table $tbl owner to NEW_OWNER" YOUR_DB ; done
for tbl in psql -qAt -c "select sequence_name from information_schema.sequences where sequence_schema = 'public';" YOUR_DB ; do psql -c "alter table $tbl owner to NEW_OWNER" YOUR_DB ; done
for tbl in psql -qAt -c "select table_name from information_schema.views where table_schema = 'public';" YOUR_DB ; do psql -c "alter table $tbl owner to NEW_OWNER" YOUR_DB ; done
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{{< highlight sh >}} reassign owned by "support" to "test-support"; {{< /highlight >}}