Postgresql - Changing ownership on all tables

change_db_owner.sh

#!/bin/bash

usage()
{
cat << EOF
usage: $0 options

This script set ownership for all table, sequence and views for a given database

Credit: Based on http://stackoverflow.com/a/2686185/305019 by Alex Soto
        Also merged changes from @sharoonthomas

OPTIONS:
   -h      Show this message
   -d      Database name
   -o      Owner
EOF
}

DB_NAME=
NEW_OWNER=

while getopts "hd:o:" OPTION 
do
    case $OPTION in
        h)  
            usage
            exit 1
            ;;  
        d)  
            DB_NAME=$OPTARG
            ;;  
        o)  
            NEW_OWNER=$OPTARG
            ;;  
    esac
done

if [[ -z $DB_NAME ]] || [[ -z $NEW_OWNER ]]
then
     usage
     exit 1
fi

for tbl in `psql -qAt -c "select tablename from pg_tables where schemaname = 'public';" ${DB_NAME}` \
           `psql -qAt -c "select sequence_name from information_schema.sequences where sequence_schema = 'public';" ${DB_NAME}` \
           `psql -qAt -c "select table_name from information_schema.views where table_schema = 'public';" ${DB_NAME}` ;
do  
    psql -c "alter table \"$tbl\" owner to ${NEW_OWNER}" ${DB_NAME} ;
done

Hiya,

I've forked this and added support for a schema other than public and quoted_identifier table names containing whitespace, not the prettiest implementation but it works!

more simple ,one line code: https://gist.github.com/thm1118/9320610

Great script, Thank you!

Here's my fork of this that adds in functions as well: https://gist.github.com/bspkrs/b997ed7f1eb1268f3403
Thanks for the original!

Here's my fork that updates tables not in 'pg_catalog' schema https://gist.github.com/RockyMM/dd89aed75f3de9a2cd76 This is since the tables in my database are prevalently not in "public" schema.

Thanks a lot, great script!!

This uses ALTER TABLE on sequences and views... it should probably use ALTER SEQUENCE and ALTER VIEW, respectively.