# REASSIGN OWNED

REASSIGN OWNED — change the ownership of database objects owned by a database role

### Synopsis

```
REASSIGN OWNED BY { old_role | CURRENT_USER | SESSION_USER } [, ...]
               TO { new_role | CURRENT_USER | SESSION_USER }
```

### Description

`REASSIGN OWNED` instructs the system to change the ownership of database objects owned by any of the *`old_roles`* to *`new_role`*.

### Parameters

*`old_role`*

The name of a role. The ownership of all the objects within the current database, and of all shared objects (databases, tablespaces), owned by this role will be reassigned to *`new_role`*.*`new_role`*

The name of the role that will be made the new owner of the affected objects.

### Notes

`REASSIGN OWNED` is often used to prepare for the removal of one or more roles. Because `REASSIGN OWNED` does not affect objects within other databases, it is usually necessary to execute this command in each database that contains objects owned by a role that is to be removed.

`REASSIGN OWNED` requires privileges on both the source role(s) and the target role.

The [DROP OWNED](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/sql-drop-owned.html) command is an alternative that simply drops all the database objects owned by one or more roles.

The `REASSIGN OWNED` command does not affect any privileges granted to the *`old_roles`* for objects that are not owned by them. Use `DROP OWNED` to revoke such privileges.

See [Section 21.4](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/role-removal.html) for more discussion.

### Compatibility

The `REASSIGN OWNED` command is a PostgreSQL extension.

### See Also

[DROP OWNED](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/sql-drop-owned.html), [DROP ROLE](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/sql-droprole.html), [ALTER DATABASE](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/sql-alterdatabase.html)


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