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_ROLE
 | 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.

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