<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >ALTER GROUP</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 8.0.11 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="SQL Commands" HREF="sql-commands.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="ALTER FUNCTION" HREF="sql-alterfunction.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="ALTER INDEX" HREF="sql-alterindex.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2007-02-02T03:57:22"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >PostgreSQL 8.0.11 Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-alterfunction.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-alterfunction.html" >Fast Backward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-alterindex.html" >Fast Forward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-alterindex.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SQL-ALTERGROUP" ></A >ALTER GROUP</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN36665" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >ALTER GROUP -- change a user group</DIV ><A NAME="AEN36668" ></A ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN36670" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" >ALTER GROUP <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >groupname</I ></TT > ADD USER <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >username</I ></TT > [, ... ] ALTER GROUP <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >groupname</I ></TT > DROP USER <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >username</I ></TT > [, ... ] ALTER GROUP <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >groupname</I ></TT > RENAME TO <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >newname</I ></TT ></PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN36678" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >ALTER GROUP</TT > changes the attributes of a user group. </P ><P > The first two variants add users to a group or remove them from a group. Only database superusers can use this command. </P ><P > The third variant changes the name of the group. Only a database superuser can rename groups. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN36684" ></A ><H2 >Parameters</H2 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >groupname</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The name of the group to modify. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >username</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > Users that are to be added to or removed from the group. The users must already exist; <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >ALTER GROUP</TT > does not create or drop users. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >newname</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The new name of the group. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN36703" ></A ><H2 >Examples</H2 ><P > Add users to a group: </P><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >ALTER GROUP staff ADD USER karl, john;</PRE ><P> Remove a user from a group: </P><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >ALTER GROUP workers DROP USER beth;</PRE ><P> </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN36708" ></A ><H2 >Compatibility</H2 ><P > There is no <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >ALTER GROUP</TT > statement in the SQL standard. The concept of roles is similar. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN36712" ></A ><H2 >See Also</H2 ><A HREF="sql-creategroup.html" ><I >CREATE GROUP</I ></A >, <A HREF="sql-dropgroup.html" ><I >DROP GROUP</I ></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-alterfunction.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-alterindex.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >ALTER FUNCTION</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" >ALTER INDEX</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >