alter_group(7)

NAME#

ALTER_GROUP - change role name or membership

SYNOPSIS#

ALTER GROUP \nrole_specification\n ADD USER \nuser_name\n [, ... ]
ALTER GROUP \nrole_specification\n DROP USER \nuser_name\n [, ... ]
where \nrole_specification\n can be:
\n
    \nrole_name\n
\n
  | CURRENT_ROLE
\n
  | CURRENT_USER
\n
  | SESSION_USER
ALTER GROUP \ngroup_name\n RENAME TO \nnew_name

DESCRIPTION#

ALTER GROUP changes the attributes of a user group. This is an obsolete command, though still accepted for backwards compatibility, because groups (and users too) have been superseded by the more general concept of roles.

The first two variants add users to a group or remove them from a group. (Any role can play the part of either a “user” or a “group” for this purpose.) These variants are effectively equivalent to granting or revoking membership in the role named as the “group”; so the preferred way to do this is to use GRANT or REVOKE. Note that GRANT and REVOKE have additional options which are not available with this command, such as the ability to grant and revoke ADMIN OPTION, and the ability to specify the grantor.

The third variant changes the name of the group. This is exactly equivalent to renaming the role with ALTER ROLE.

PARAMETERS#

group_name

user_name

new_name

EXAMPLES#

Add users to a group:

ALTER GROUP staff ADD USER karl, john;

Remove a user from a group:

ALTER GROUP workers DROP USER beth;

COMPATIBILITY#

There is no ALTER GROUP statement in the SQL standard.

SEE ALSO#

GRANT(7), REVOKE(7), ALTER ROLE (ALTER_ROLE(7))