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Captain Vim
Captain Vim

Reputation: 31

How to solve ERROR: must be member of role "postgres"

I am very new to postgres. One of my project is using an RDS postgres instance, the application team created a user and use that user to create the database.

I am trying to grant default privilege to the default postgres user to this application database by running the command below but I am getting an error message.

ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES
FOR USER postgres
IN SCHEMA public
GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON TABLES TO postgres;

Error message

ERROR:  must be member of role "postgres"
SQL state: 42501

Please advise how I can grant default privilege to postgres user for the database.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 12471

Answers (3)

Noitidart
Noitidart

Reputation: 37318

If you did a pgdump to export the database, and then were getting this error on trying to import it. Use -O when creating the pgdump - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pgdump.html

Upvotes: 1

Captain Vim
Captain Vim

Reputation: 31

I misunderstood my case earlier. Apparently, postgres user was the owner of the database not the app user. So I logged in as postgres and executed the command and it works.

Upvotes: 0

Laurenz Albe
Laurenz Albe

Reputation: 247940

You must connect as a superuser to run this command.

Upvotes: 4

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