REVOKE (Role)

Revokes a role from users and roles.

Revokes a role from users and roles.

Syntax

REVOKE [ ADMIN OPTION FOR ] role[,...]
   FROM grantee[,...]
   [ CASCADE ]

Parameters

ADMIN OPTION FOR
Revokes from the grantees the authority to assign the specified roles to other users or roles. Current roles for grantees remain unaffected. If you omit this clause, OpenText™ Analytics Database revokes role assignment privileges and the current roles .
role
Role to revoke.
grantee

Whose privileges are revoked, one of the following:

CASCADE

Revoke privileges from users who received them from the grantee through WITH GRANT OPTION.

Privileges

One of the following:

  • Superuser

  • Privileges grantee who was given the option (WITH ADMIN OPTION) of extending these privileges to other users

Examples

This example shows the revocation of the pseudosuperuser role from the dbadmin user:

=> REVOKE pseudosuperuser from dbadmin;

This example shows the revocation of administration access from the dbadmin user for the pseudosuperuser role. The ADMIN OPTION command does not remove the pseudosuperuser role.

=> REVOKE ADMIN OPTION FOR pseudosuperuser FROM dbadmin;

Notes

If the role you are trying to revoke was not already granted to the user, the database returns a NOTICE:

=> REVOKE commentor FROM Sue;
NOTICE 2022:  Role "commentor" was not already granted to user "Sue"
REVOKE ROLE

See also