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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 <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >new_role</I ></TT >. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >new_role</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The name of the role that will be made the new owner of the affected objects. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN90215" ></A ><H2 >Notes</H2 ><P > <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >REASSIGN OWNED</TT > is often used to prepare for the removal of one or more roles. Because <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >REASSIGN OWNED</TT > 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. </P ><P > <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >REASSIGN OWNED</TT > requires privileges on both the source role(s) and the target role. </P ><P > The <A HREF="sql-drop-owned.html" >DROP OWNED</A > command is an alternative that simply drops all the database objects owned by one or more roles. </P ><P > The <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >REASSIGN OWNED</TT > command does not affect any privileges granted to the <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >old_roles</I ></TT > on objects that are not owned by them. Likewise, it does not affect default privileges created with <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES</TT >. Use <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >DROP OWNED</TT > to revoke such privileges. </P ><P > See <A HREF="role-removal.html" >Section 21.4</A > for more discussion. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN90231" ></A ><H2 >Compatibility</H2 ><P > The <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >REASSIGN OWNED</TT > command is a <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >PostgreSQL</SPAN > extension. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN90236" ></A ><H2 >See Also</H2 ><A HREF="sql-drop-owned.html" >DROP OWNED</A >, <A HREF="sql-droprole.html" >DROP ROLE</A >, <A HREF="sql-alterdatabase.html" >ALTER DATABASE</A ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-prepare-transaction.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-refreshmaterializedview.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >PREPARE TRANSACTION</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-commands.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >