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dropuser

A core utility for dropping a database user

dropuser is a core utility for dropping (removing) a database user, and is essentially a wrapper around the DROP ROLE command.

dropuser was added in PostgreSQL 7.0.

Source code

The dropuser source code is located at src/bin/scripts/dropuser.c.

Change history

PostgreSQL 8.4
- -w/--no-password option added (commit 9de59fd1)
PostgreSQL 8.3
- --quiet option removed (commit 9539e64b)
PostgreSQL 7.3
- support for identifiers containing spaces added (commit 5804a7ce)
PostgreSQL 7.0
- added (commit 240e4c98)

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DROP ROLE, DROP USER, createuser