ALTER USER
ALTER USER — change a database role
Synopsis
ALTER USERrole_specification[ WITH ]option[ ... ]whereoptioncan be: SUPERUSER | NOSUPERUSER | CREATEDB | NOCREATEDB | CREATEROLE | NOCREATEROLE | INHERIT | NOINHERIT | LOGIN | NOLOGIN | REPLICATION | NOREPLICATION | BYPASSRLS | NOBYPASSRLS | CONNECTION LIMITconnlimit| [ ENCRYPTED ] PASSWORD 'password' | PASSWORD NULL | VALID UNTIL 'timestamp'ALTER USERnameRENAME TOnew_nameALTER USER {role_specification| ALL } [ IN DATABASEdatabase_name] SETconfiguration_parameter{ TO | = } {value| DEFAULT }ALTER USER {role_specification| ALL } [ IN DATABASEdatabase_name] SETconfiguration_parameterFROM CURRENTALTER USER {role_specification| ALL } [ IN DATABASEdatabase_name] RESETconfiguration_parameterALTER USER {role_specification| ALL } [ IN DATABASEdatabase_name] RESET ALLwhererole_specificationcan be:role_name| CURRENT_ROLE | CURRENT_USER | SESSION_USER
Description
ALTER USER is now an alias forALTER ROLE.
Compatibility
TheALTER USER statement is aPostgreSQL extension. The SQL standard leaves the definition of users to the implementation.