NAME¶

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.

SEE ALSO¶

ALTER ROLE (ALTER_ROLE(7))