PostgreSQL Create User in PgAdmin PostgreSQL Create a User SQLShell (Command Line) Add an existing user to a Database PostgreSQL Updating USER PostgreSQL Deleting User Cheat Sheet

How to Create PostgreSQL User in PgAdmin

Following is a step by step process on how to create user in PostgreSQL PgAdmin: Step 1) Right click on Login In the first step, Right click on Login Group Role -> Create -> Click on Login Group Role…

Step 2) Create Login/Group Role Now, Enter the name for the Login

Step 3) Click on Definition & Enter Details

Enter Password An expiry date for the account

Step 4) The Privilege section

Toggle Can Login button to YES Toggle Superuser to YES

Step 5) The SQL section

You will see the SQL query to create a user as per the selections made in previous steps Click Save button

Step 6) Role is created Now, Role is reflected in the object tree.

Step 7) Create a Database Now, assign owner myguru to it as shown in below create user Postgres example.

Step 8) The command line Now, you can see the owner is myguru.

PostgreSQL Create a User SQLShell (Command Line)

You can create a user by using the command-line command CREATE USER This Postgres create user with password method is more convenient for programmers and administrators as they have access to the console of PostgreSQL server. Moreover, they need for Postgres user creation and execute with a single command in place of logging in and using the interface of the PostgreSQL client. Syntax: Example: will create a user tom Will create a user tome with superuser privileges. Let’s see the following example. Step 1) We are creating a superuser valid till 3rd Apri 2025 11:50:38 IST. Enter the following command

Step 2) Enter command \du into the checklist of users

NOTE: CREATE USER is same as CREATE ROLE command. The difference between the two commands is when the Postgres CREATE user command is written it is by default in the LOGIN state whereas NOLOGIN is assumed when the CRETE ROLE option is used.

Add an existing user to a Database

You can grant a user privileges to access a database. Example, we grant user “mytest” all privileges on user guru99

After execution of the PostgreSQL add user command, user will able to access the database with the given permissions. The command GRANT is very powerful. You can give granular privileges like Select, Insert, Update to a user.

PostgreSQL Updating USER

Altering Existing User Permissions

Now that our new user “mytest” exists you can use ALTER USER to change the permissions granted to the librarian. The format of ALTER USER Postgres includes the name of the user followed by some options to tell PostgreSQL which permissive alterations to make:

Revoking Permissions

You need to use this command when you make a mistake and wrongly assign permission which you may want to revoke. You can use ALTER USER command with no prefix before the permissive options. For example, we can remove the SUPERUSER status from mytest like: Using \du, you will observe that the Superuser privilege is removed.

Assigning Permission

You can use user SUPERUSER permission back “mytest” using the following command Using \du, you will observe that the Superuser privilege is added.

PostgreSQL Deleting User

You can use delete any user if you are sure that the specific user is no longer for your database. Note that deleting the users will never affect the actual database. To delete any user, you have to make certain that the user is an owner of the database. Otherwise, you may receive an error message. Example:

Account “myguru” is an owner of database “demoDB.” Enter command DROP USER myguru Error is shown

Once we change the database owner, the user can be deleted

Cheat Sheet

Here are important commands