Melvin Davidson <melvin6...@gmail.com> writes:

> Possibly,
>
> To disble:
> ALTER USER name RENAME TO xname;  


Fine if you don't care about losing password :-)

yomamadb/postgres
=# create user foo password 'foowow';
CREATE ROLE
yomamadb/postgres
=# alter user foo rename to fooxxx;
NOTICE:  MD5 password cleared because of role rename   <<<---
ALTER ROLE
yomamadb/postgres
=# 

>
> To enable
> ALTER USER xname RENAME TO name;
>
> ???
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Felipe Gasper <fel...@felipegasper.com> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>    
>             Is there a way to temporarily suspend a user account?
>    
>             I would prefer not to revoke login privileges since that will 
> break things that mine pg_users and pg_shadow.
>    
>             I also am trying to find something that is completely 
> reversible, so something like setting connection limit to 0, which would lose 
> a potentially customized
>     connection limit, doesn’t work.
>    
>             We do this in MySQL by reversing the password hash then 
> running FLUSH PRIVILEGES; however, that doesn’t seem to work in 
> PostgreSQL/pg_authid as some sort of
>     cache prevents this from taking effect.
>    
>             Has anyone else solved this issue? Thank you!
>    
>     -Felipe Gasper
>     Houston, TX
>
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