PostgreSQL – How to Drop A User

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To drop a user in PostgreSQL, you can use the DROP USER statement. Here’s the basic syntax for dropping a user:

DROP USER user_name;

where user_name is the name of the user you want to drop.

Always exercise caution when dropping users, especially in a production environment, as it will permanently remove the user and any associated database objects and data owned by that user. Make sure you have a backup and that you are certain about dropping the user before executing this command.

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