ALTER USER
ALTER USER — change a database role
Synopsis
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_USER | SESSION_USER
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
ALTER ROLE
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