REVOKE

Removes access permissions, such as permissions to create, drop, or update tables, from a user or role.

You can only GRANT or REVOKE USAGE permissions on an external schema to database users and roles using the ON SCHEMA syntax. When using ON EXTERNAL SCHEMA with AWS Lake Formation, you can only GRANT and REVOKE permissions to an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role. For the list of permissions, see the syntax.

For stored procedures, USAGE ON LANGUAGE plpgsql permissions are granted to PUBLIC by default. EXECUTE ON PROCEDURE permission is granted only to the owner and superusers by default.

Specify in the REVOKE command the permissions that you want to remove. To give permissions, use the GRANT command.

Syntax

REVOKE [ GRANT OPTION FOR ]
{ { SELECT | INSERT | UPDATE | DELETE | DROP | REFERENCES | ALTER | TRUNCATE } [,...] | ALL [ PRIVILEGES ] }
ON { [ TABLE ] table_name [, ...] | ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA schema_name [, ...] }
FROM { username | ROLE role_name | GROUP group_name | PUBLIC } [, ...]
[ RESTRICT ]

REVOKE [ GRANT OPTION FOR ]
{ { CREATE | TEMPORARY | TEMP | ALTER } [,...] | ALL [ PRIVILEGES ] }
ON DATABASE db_name [, ...]
FROM { username | ROLE role_name | GROUP group_name | PUBLIC } [, ...]
[ RESTRICT ]

REVOKE [ GRANT OPTION FOR ]
{ { CREATE | USAGE | ALTER | DROP } [,...] | ALL [ PRIVILEGES ] }
ON SCHEMA schema_name [, ...]
FROM { username | ROLE role_name | GROUP group_name | PUBLIC } [, ...]
[ RESTRICT ]

REVOKE [ GRANT OPTION FOR ]
EXECUTE
    ON FUNCTION function_name ( [ [ argname ] argtype [, ...] ] ) [, ...]
    FROM { username | ROLE role_name | GROUP group_name | PUBLIC } [, ...]
[ RESTRICT ]

REVOKE [ GRANT OPTION FOR ]
{ { EXECUTE } [,...] | ALL [ PRIVILEGES ] }
    ON PROCEDURE procedure_name ( [ [ argname ] argtype [, ...] ] ) [, ...]
    FROM { username | ROLE role_name | GROUP group_name | PUBLIC } [, ...]
[ RESTRICT ]

REVOKE [ GRANT OPTION FOR ]
USAGE
    ON LANGUAGE language_name [, ...]
    FROM { username | ROLE role_name | GROUP group_name | PUBLIC } [, ...]
[ RESTRICT ]

REVOKE [GRANT OPTION FOR] 
{ { ALTER | DROP} [,...] | ALL [ PRIVILEGES ] }
    ON COPY JOB job_name [,...]
    FROM { username | ROLE role_name | GROUP group_name | PUBLIC } [, ...]    

Revoking column-level permissions for tables

The following is the syntax for column-level permissions on Amazon Redshift tables and views.

REVOKE { { SELECT | UPDATE } ( column_name [, ...] ) [, ...] | ALL [ PRIVILEGES ] ( column_name [,...] ) }
     ON { [ TABLE ] table_name [, ...] }
     FROM { username | ROLE role_name | GROUP group_name | PUBLIC } [, ...]
     [ RESTRICT ]

Revoking ASSUMEROLE permissions

The following is the syntax to revoke the ASSUMEROLE permission from users and groups with a specified role.

REVOKE ASSUMEROLE
    ON { 'iam_role' [, ...]  | default | ALL }
    FROM { user_name | ROLE role_name | GROUP group_name | PUBLIC } [, ...]
    FOR { ALL | COPY | UNLOAD | EXTERNAL FUNCTION | CREATE MODEL }

Revoking permissions for Redshift Spectrum for Lake Formation

The following is the syntax for Redshift Spectrum integration with Lake Formation.

REVOKE [ GRANT OPTION FOR ]
{ SELECT | ALL [ PRIVILEGES ] } ( column_list )
    ON EXTERNAL TABLE schema_name.table_name
    FROM { IAM_ROLE iam_role } [, ...]

REVOKE [ GRANT OPTION FOR ]
{ { SELECT | ALTER | DROP | DELETE | INSERT }  [, ...] | ALL [ PRIVILEGES ] }
    ON EXTERNAL TABLE schema_name.table_name [, ...]
    FROM { { IAM_ROLE iam_role } [, ...] | PUBLIC }

REVOKE [ GRANT OPTION FOR ]
{ { CREATE | ALTER | DROP }  [, ...] | ALL [ PRIVILEGES ] }
    ON EXTERNAL SCHEMA schema_name [, ...]
    FROM { IAM_ROLE iam_role } [, ...]

Revoking datashare permissions

Producer-side datashare permissions

The following is the syntax for using REVOKE to remove ALTER or SHARE permissions from a user or role. The user whose permissions have been revoked can no longer alter the datashare, or grant usage to a consumer.

REVOKE { ALTER | SHARE } ON DATASHARE datashare_name
 FROM { username [ WITH GRANT OPTION ] | ROLE role_name | GROUP group_name | PUBLIC } [, ...]

The following is the syntax for using REVOKE to remove a consumer’s access to a datashare.

REVOKE USAGE
 ON DATASHARE datashare_name
 FROM NAMESPACE 'namespaceGUID' [, ...] | ACCOUNT 'accountnumber' [ VIA DATA CATALOG ] [, ...]

The following is an example of revoking usage of a datashare from a Lake Formation account.

REVOKE USAGE ON DATASHARE salesshare FROM ACCOUNT '123456789012' VIA DATA CATALOG;

Consumer-side datashare permissions

The following is the REVOKE syntax for data-sharing usage permissions on a specific database or schema created from a datashare. Revoking usage permission from a database created with the WITH PERMISSIONS clause doesn't revoke any additional permissions you granted a user or role, including object-level permissions granted for underlying objects. If you re-grant usage permission to that user or role, they will retain all additional permissions that they had before you revoked usage.

REVOKE USAGE ON { DATABASE shared_database_name [, ...] | SCHEMA shared_schema}
 FROM { username | ROLE role_name | GROUP group_name | PUBLIC } [, ...]

Revoking scoped permissions

Scoped permissions let you grant permissions to a user or role on all objects of a type within a database or schema. Users and roles with scoped permissions have the specified permissions on all current and future objects within the database or schema.

You can view the scope of database-level scoped permissions in SVV_DATABASE_PRIVILEGES. You can view the scope of schema-level scoped permissions in SVV_SCHEMA_PRIVILEGES.

For more information about scoped permissions, see Scoped permissions.

The following is the syntax for revoking scoped permissions from users and roles.

REVOKE [ GRANT OPTION ] 
{ CREATE | USAGE | ALTER | DROP } [,...] | ALL [ PRIVILEGES ] }
FOR SCHEMAS IN
DATABASE db_name 
FROM { username | ROLE role_name } [, ...]

REVOKE [ GRANT OPTION ]
{ { SELECT | INSERT | UPDATE | DELETE | DROP | ALTER | TRUNCATE | REFERENCES } [, ...] } | ALL [PRIVILEGES] } }
FOR TABLES IN
{ SCHEMA schema_name [ DATABASE db_name ] | DATABASE db_name }
FROM { username | ROLE role_name } [, ...]

REVOKE [ GRANT OPTION ] { EXECUTE | ALL [ PRIVILEGES ] }
FOR FUNCTIONS IN 
{ SCHEMA schema_name [DATABASE db_name ] | DATABASE db_name }
FROM { username | ROLE role_name } [, ...]

REVOKE [ GRANT OPTION ] { EXECUTE | ALL [ PRIVILEGES ] }
FOR PROCEDURES IN
{ SCHEMA schema_name [DATABASE db_name ] | DATABASE db_name }
FROM { username | ROLE role_name } [, ...]

REVOKE [ GRANT OPTION ] USAGE
FOR LANGUAGES IN
DATABASE db_name
FROM { username | ROLE role_name } [, ...]  

REVOKE [GRANT_OPTION] 
{ { CREATE | ALTER | DROP} [,...] | ALL [ PRIVILEGES ] }
FOR COPY JOBS 
IN DATABASE db_name
FROM { username [ WITH GRANT OPTION ] | ROLE role_name } [, ...]      

Note that scoped permissions don’t distinguish between permissions for functions and for procedures. For example, the following statement revokes EXECUTE permissions for both functions and procedures from bob in the schema Sales_schema.

REVOKE EXECUTE FOR FUNCTIONS IN SCHEMA Sales_schema FROM bob;

Revoking machine learning permissions

The following is the syntax for machine learning model permissions on Amazon Redshift.

REVOKE [ GRANT OPTION FOR ]
    CREATE MODEL FROM { username | ROLE role_name | GROUP group_name | PUBLIC } [, ...]
    [ RESTRICT ]

REVOKE [ GRANT OPTION FOR ]
    { EXECUTE | ALL [ PRIVILEGES ] }
    ON MODEL model_name [, ...]

    FROM { username | ROLE role_name | GROUP group_name | PUBLIC } [, ...]
    [ RESTRICT ]

Revoking role permissions

The following is the syntax for revoking role permissions on Amazon Redshift.

REVOKE [ ADMIN OPTION FOR ] { ROLE role_name } [, ...] FROM { user_name } [, ...]

REVOKE { ROLE role_name } [, ...] FROM { ROLE role_name } [, ...]

The following is the syntax for revoking system permissions to roles on Amazon Redshift.

REVOKE
  {
    { CREATE USER | DROP USER | ALTER USER |
    CREATE SCHEMA | DROP SCHEMA |
    ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES |
    ACCESS CATALOG |
    CREATE TABLE | DROP TABLE | ALTER TABLE |
    CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION | CREATE OR REPLACE EXTERNAL FUNCTION |
    DROP FUNCTION |
    CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE | DROP PROCEDURE |
    CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW | DROP VIEW |
    CREATE MODEL | DROP MODEL |
    CREATE DATASHARE | ALTER DATASHARE | DROP DATASHARE |
    CREATE LIBRARY | DROP LIBRARY |
    CREATE ROLE | DROP ROLE
    TRUNCATE TABLE
    VACUUM | ANALYZE | CANCEL }[, ...]
  }
  | { ALL [ PRIVILEGES ] }
FROM { ROLE role_name } [, ...]

Revoking explain permissions for row-level security policy filters

The following is the syntax for revoking permissions to explain the row-level security policy filters of a query in the EXPLAIN plan. You can revoke the privilege using the REVOKE statement.

REVOKE EXPLAIN RLS FROM ROLE rolename 

The following is the syntax for granting permissions to bypass row-level security policies for a query.

REVOKE IGNORE RLS FROM ROLE rolename 

The following is the syntax for revoking permissions from the specified row-level security policy.

REVOKE SELECT ON [ TABLE ] table_name [, ...]
            FROM RLS POLICY policy_name [, ...]

Parameters

GRANT OPTION FOR

Revokes only the option to grant a specified permission to other users and doesn't revoke the permission itself. You can't revoke GRANT OPTION from a group or from PUBLIC.

SELECT

Revokes the permission to select data from a table or a view using a SELECT statement.

INSERT

Revokes the permission to load data into a table using an INSERT statement or a COPY statement.

UPDATE

Revokes the permission to update a table column using an UPDATE statement.

DELETE

Revokes the permission to delete a data row from a table.

REFERENCES

Revokes the permission to create a foreign key constraint. You should revoke this permission on both the referenced table and the referencing table.

TRUNCATE

Revokes the permission to truncate a table. Without this permission, only the owner of a table or a superuser can truncate a table. For more information about the TRUNCATE command, see TRUNCATE.

ALL [ PRIVILEGES ]

Revokes all available permissions at once from the specified user or group. The PRIVILEGES keyword is optional.

Note

Amazon Redshift doesn't support the RULE and TRIGGER permissions. For more information, go to Unsupported PostgreSQL features.

ALTER

Depending on the database object, revokes the following permissions from the user or user group:

• For tables, ALTER revokes permission to alter a table or view. For more information, see ALTER TABLE.

• For databases, ALTER revokes permission to alter a database. For more information, see ALTER DATABASE.

• For schemas, ALTER grants revokes to alter a schema. For more information, see ALTER SCHEMA.

• For external tables, ALTER revokes permission to alter a table in an AWS Glue Data Catalog that is enabled for Lake Formation. This permission only applies when using Lake Formation.

DROP

Depending on the database object, revokes the following permissions from the user or role:

• For tables, DROP revokes permission to drop a table or view. For more information, see DROP TABLE.

• For databases, DROP revokes permission to drop a database. For more information, see DROP DATABASE.

• For schemas, DROP revokes permission to drop a schema. For more information, see DROP SCHEMA.

ASSUMEROLE

Revokes the permission to run COPY, UNLOAD, EXTERNAL FUNCTION, or CREATE MODEL commands from users, roles, or groups with a specified role.

ON [ TABLE ] table_name

Revokes the specified permissions on a table or a view. The TABLE keyword is optional.

ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA schema_name

Revokes the specified permissions on all tables in the referenced schema.

( column_name [,...] ) ON TABLE table_name

Revokes the specified permissions from users, groups, or PUBLIC on the specified columns of the Amazon Redshift table or view.

( column_list ) ON EXTERNAL TABLE schema_name.table_name

Revokes the specified permissions from an IAM role on the specified columns of the Lake Formation table in the referenced schema.

ON EXTERNAL TABLE schema_name.table_name

Revokes the specified permissions from an IAM role on the specified Lake Formation tables in the referenced schema.

ON EXTERNAL SCHEMA schema_name

Revokes the specified permissions from an IAM role on the referenced schema.

FROM IAM_ROLE iam_role

Indicates the IAM role losing the permissions.

ROLE role_name

Revokes the permissions from the specified role.

GROUP group_name

Revokes the permissions from the specified user group.

PUBLIC

Revokes the specified permissions from all users. PUBLIC represents a group that always includes all users. An individual user's permissions consist of the sum of permissions granted to PUBLIC, permissions granted to any groups that the user belongs to, and any permissions granted to the user individually.

Revoking PUBLIC from a Lake Formation external table results in revoking the permission from the Lake Formation everyone group.

CREATE

Depending on the database object, revokes the following permissions from the user or group:

• For databases, using the CREATE clause for REVOKE prevents users from creating schemas within the database.

• For schemas, using the CREATE clause for REVOKE prevents users from creating objects within a schema. To rename an object, the user must have the CREATE permission and own the object to be renamed.

Note

By default, all users have CREATE and USAGE permissions on the PUBLIC schema.

TEMPORARY | TEMP

Revokes the permission to create temporary tables in the specified database.

Note

By default, users are granted permission to create temporary tables by their automatic membership in the PUBLIC group. To remove the permission for any users to create temporary tables, revoke the TEMP permission from the PUBLIC group and then explicitly grant the permission to create temporary tables to specific users or groups of users.

ON DATABASE db_name

Revokes the permissions on the specified database.

USAGE

Revokes USAGE permissions on objects within a specific schema, which makes these objects inaccessible to users. Specific actions on these objects must be revoked separately (such as the EXECUTE permission on functions).

Note

By default, all users have CREATE and USAGE permissions on the PUBLIC schema.

ON SCHEMA schema_name

Revokes the permissions on the specified schema. You can use schema permissions to control the creation of tables; the CREATE permission for a database only controls the creation of schemas.

RESTRICT

Revokes only those permissions that the user directly granted. This behavior is the default.

EXECUTE ON PROCEDURE procedure_name

Revokes the EXECUTE permission on a specific stored procedure. Because stored procedure names can be overloaded, you must include the argument list for the procedure. For more information, see Naming stored procedures.

EXECUTE ON ALL PROCEDURES IN SCHEMA procedure_name

Revokes the specified permissions on all procedures in the referenced schema.

USAGE ON LANGUAGE language_name

Revokes the USAGE permission on a language. For Python user-defined functions (UDFs), use plpythonu. For SQL UDFs, use sql. For stored procedures, use plpgsql.

To create a UDF, you must have permission for usage on language for SQL or plpythonu (Python). By default, USAGE ON LANGUAGE SQL is granted to PUBLIC. However, you must explicitly grant USAGE ON LANGUAGE PLPYTHONU to specific users or groups.

To revoke usage for SQL, first revoke usage from PUBLIC. Then grant usage on SQL only to the specific users or groups permitted to create SQL UDFs. The following example revokes usage on SQL from PUBLIC then grants usage to the user group udf_devs.

revoke usage on language sql from PUBLIC;
grant usage on language sql to group udf_devs;

For more information, see UDF security and permissions.

To revoke usage for stored procedures, first revoke usage from PUBLIC. Then grant usage on plpgsql only to the specific users or groups permitted to create stored procedures. For more information, see Security and privileges for stored procedures .

ON COPY JOB job_name

Revokes the specified permissions on a copy job.

FOR { ALL | COPY | UNLOAD | EXTERNAL FUNCTION | CREATE MODEL } [, ...]

Specifes the SQL command for which the permission is revoked. You can specify ALL to revoke the permission on the COPY, UNLOAD, EXTERNAL FUNCTION, and CREATE MODEL statements. This clause applies only to revoking the ASSUMEROLE permission.

ALTER

Revokes the ALTER permission for users or user groups that allows those that don't own a datashare to alter the datashare. This permission is required to add or remove objects from a datashare, or to set the property PUBLICACCESSIBLE. For more information, see ALTER DATASHARE.

SHARE

Revokes permissions for users and user groups to add consumers to a datashare. Revoking this permissionis required to stop the particular consumer from accessing the datashare from its clusters.

ON DATASHARE datashare_name

Grants the specified permissions on the referenced datashare.

FROM username

Indicates the user losing the permissions.

FROM GROUP group_name

Indicates the user group losing the permissions.

WITH GRANT OPTION

Indicates that the user losing the permissions can in turn revoke the same permissions for others. You can't revoke WITH GRANT OPTION for a group or for PUBLIC.

USAGE

When USAGE is revoked for a consumer account or namespace within the same account, the specified consumer account or namespace within an account can't access the datashare and the objects of the datashare in read-only fashion.

Revoking the USAGE permission revokes the access to a datashare from consumers.

FROM NAMESPACE 'clusternamespace GUID'

Indicates the namespace in the same account that has consumers losing the permissions to the datashare. Namespaces use a 128-bit alphanumeric globally unique identifier (GUID).

FROM ACCOUNT 'accountnumber' [ VIA DATA CATALOG ]

Indicates the account number of another account that has the consumers losing the permissions to the datashare. Specifying ‘VIA DATA CATALOG’ indicates that you are revoking usage of the datashare from a Lake Formation account. Omitting the account number means that you're revoking from the account that owns the cluster.

ON DATABASE shared_database_name> [, ...]

Revokes the specified usage permissions on the specified database that was created in the specified datashare.

ON SCHEMA shared_schema

Revokes the specified permissions on the specified schema that was created in the specified datashare.

FOR { SCHEMAS | TABLES | FUNCTIONS | PROCEDURES | LANGUAGES | COPY JOBS} IN

Specifies the database objects to revoke permission from. The parameters following IN define the scope of the revoked permission.

CREATE MODEL

Revokes the CREATE MODEL permission to create machine learning models in the specified database.

ON MODEL model_name

Revokes the EXECUTE permission for a specific model.

ACCESS CATALOG

Revokes the permission to view relevant metadata of objects that the role has access to.

[ ADMIN OPTION FOR ] { role } [, ...]

The role that you revoke from a specified user that has the WITH ADMIN OPTION.

FROM { role } [, ...]

The role that you revoke the specified role from.

Usage notes

To learn more about the usage notes for REVOKE, see Usage notes.

Examples

For examples of how to use REVOKE, see Examples.