What is the grant
option/trick I need to give to the current user ("userA") to allow him to change a object's owner which belongs by another user ("userC")?
More precisely, the contact table is owned by the userC and when I perform the following query for changing the owner to the userB, connected with the userA:
alter table contact owner to userB;
I get this error:
ERROR: must be owner of relation contact
But userA has all needed rights to do that normally (the "create on schema" grant option should be enough):
grant select,insert,update,delete on all tables in schema public to userA;
grant select,usage,update on all sequences in schema public to userA;
grant execute on all functions in schema public to userA;
grant references, trigger on all tables in schema public to userA;
grant create on schema public to userA;
grant usage on schema public to userA;
Thks
Command line output:
root@server:~# psql -U userA myDatabase
myDataBase=>\dt contact
List of relations
Schema | Name | Type | Owner
-------+---------+----------+---------
public | contact | table | userC
(1 row)
myDataBase=>
myDataBase=>alter table contact owner to userB;
ERROR: must be owner of relation public.contact
myDataBase=>
Thanks to Mike's comment, I've re-read the doc and I've realised that my current user (i.e. userA that already has the create privilege) wasn't a direct/indirect member of the new owning role...
So the solution was quite simple - I've just done this grant:
grant userB to userA;
That's all folks ;-)
Another requirement is that the object has to be owned by user userA before altering it...