DROP USER

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The DROP USER statement removes one or more SQL users.

Tip:
You can also use the cockroach user rm command to remove users.

Required privileges

The user must have the DELETE privilege on the system.users table.

Synopsis

DROP USER IF EXISTS user_name ,

Parameters

Parameter Description
user_name The username of the user to remove. To remove multiple users, use a comma-separate list of usernames.

You can use SHOW USERS to find usernames.

Example

All of a user's privileges must be revoked before the user can be dropped.

In this example, first check a user's privileges. Then, revoke the user's privileges before removing the user.

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> SHOW GRANTS ON test.customers FOR mroach;
+-----------+--------+------------+
|   Table   |  User  | Privileges |
+-----------+--------+------------+
| customers | mroach | CREATE     |
| customers | mroach | INSERT     |
| customers | mroach | UPDATE     |
+-----------+--------+------------+
(3 rows)
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> REVOKE CREATE,INSERT,UPDATE ON test.customers FROM mroach;
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> DROP USER mroach;

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