REASSIGN OWNED
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## REASSIGN OWNED

REASSIGN OWNED — change the ownership of database objects owned by a database role

## Synopsis

    REASSIGN OWNED BY { old_role | CURRENT_ROLE | CURRENT_USER | SESSION_USER } [, ...]
                   TO { new_role | CURRENT_ROLE | CURRENT_USER | SESSION_USER }

## Description

`REASSIGN OWNED` instructs the system to change the ownership of database objects owned by any of the `old_roles` to `new_role`.

## Parameters

`old_role`

  The name of a role. 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 `new_role`.

`new_role`

  The name of the role that will be made the new owner of the affected objects.

## Notes

`REASSIGN OWNED` is often used to prepare for the removal of one or more roles. Because `REASSIGN OWNED` 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.

`REASSIGN OWNED` requires membership on both the source role(s) and the target role.

The `DROP OWNED` command is an alternative that simply drops all the database objects owned by one or more roles.

The `REASSIGN OWNED` command does not affect any privileges granted to the `old_roles` on objects that are not owned by them. Likewise, it does not affect default privileges created with `ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES`. Use `DROP OWNED` to revoke such privileges.

See Section 21.4 for more discussion.

## Compatibility

The `REASSIGN OWNED` command is a PostgreSQL extension.

## See Also

DROP OWNED, DROP ROLE, ALTER DATABASE

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