First do: DROP OWNED BY user1; then: drop role user1; Igor ________________________________
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rex Mabry Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 12:45 PM To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: [ADMIN] dropping a user in 8.2.6 I am using version 8.2.6 I created a role and granted all on table "instrument" in the database. But, when I tried to drop the role, I get the following error: mydb=# drop role system_dba; ERROR: role "user1" cannot be dropped because some objects depend on it DETAIL: access to table mydb_admin.instrument Is there a way to drop a role with some sort of "cascade" option?