OWNER TO

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OWNER TO is a subcommand of ALTER DATABASE, ALTER TABLE, ALTER SCHEMA, and ALTER TYPE, and is used to change the owner of an object in a cluster.

Required privileges

• To change the owner of a database, the user must be an admin user, or the current owner of the database and a member of the new owner role. The user must also have the CREATEDB privilege.
• To change the owner of a table, the user must be an admin user, or the current owner of the table and a member of the new owner role. The new owner role must also have the CREATE privilege on the schema to which the table belongs.

Syntax

Databases

ALTER DATABASE <name> OWNER TO <newowner>

Tables

ALTER TABLE <name> OWNER TO <newowner>

Parameters

Examples

Setup

The following examples use MovR, a fictional vehicle-sharing application, to demonstrate CockroachDB SQL statements. For more information about the MovR example application and dataset, see MovR: A Global Vehicle-sharing App.

To follow along, run cockroach demo to start a temporary, in-memory cluster with the movr dataset preloaded:

$ cockroach demo

Change a database's owner

Suppose that the current owner of the movr database is root and you want to change the owner to a new user named max.

> ALTER DATABASE movr OWNER TO max;

To verify that the owner is now max, query the pg_catalog.pg_database and pg_catalog.pg_roles tables:

> SELECT rolname FROM pg_catalog.pg_database d JOIN pg_catalog.pg_roles r ON d.datdba = r.oid WHERE datname = 'movr';

  rolname
-----------
  max
(1 row)

Change a table's owner

Suppose that the current owner of the rides table is root and you want to change the owner to a new user named max.

> ALTER TABLE promo_codes OWNER TO max;

To verify that the owner is now max, query the pg_catalog.pg_tables table:

> SELECT tableowner FROM pg_catalog.pg_tables WHERE tablename = 'promo_codes';

  tableowner
--------------
  max
(1 row)

See also

• CREATE DATABASE
• SHOW DATABASES
• CREATE TABLE
• SHOW TABLES
• Other SQL Statements