DROP USER reference

DROP USER - drop an existing user

For full documentation of the Access Control List and Role-based Access Control, see the RBAC operations page.

note

Role-based Access Control (RBAC) operations are only available in QuestDB Enterprise & QuestDB Cloud.

Syntax​

Flow chart showing the syntax of the DROP USER keyword

Description​

DROP USER removes an existing user.

All related secrets are also deleted.

Unless the IF EXISTS clause is applied, an error is raised and the command fails if the user does not exist.

Examples​

DROP USER john;

DROP USER IF EXISTS john;

It can be verified with:

SHOW USERS;

that does not include john in its result.