content/en/blog/miscellaneous/postgresql-reassign.md


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---
title: "Change owner on a postgresql database and all tables"
linkTitle: "Change owner on a postgresql database and all tables"
date: 2012-04-20
description: >
  Change owner on a postgresql database and all tables
---

{{< highlight sh >}}
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
{{< /highlight >}}

{{< highlight sh >}}
reassign owned by "support" to "test-support";
{{< /highlight >}}