/alter/user

URL: http://<db.host>:<db.port>/alter/user

Alters a user.

Input Parameter Description

Name Type Description
name string Name of the user to be altered. Must be an existing user.
action string

Modification operation to be applied to the user.

Supported Values Description
set_password Sets the password of the user. The user must be an internal user.
set_resource_group Sets the resource group for an internal user. The resource group must exist, otherwise, an empty string assigns the user to the default resource group.
set_default_schema Set the default_schema for an internal user. An empty string means the user will have no default schema.
value string The value of the modification, depending on input parameter action.
options map of string to strings Optional parameters. The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

Output Parameter Description

The GPUdb server embeds the endpoint response inside a standard response structure which contains status information and the actual response to the query. Here is a description of the various fields of the wrapper:

Name Type Description
status String 'OK' or 'ERROR'
message String Empty if success or an error message
data_type String 'alter_user_response' or 'none' in case of an error
data String Empty string
data_str JSON or String

This embedded JSON represents the result of the /alter/user endpoint:

Name Type Description
name string Value of input parameter name.
info map of string to strings Additional information.

Empty string in case of an error.