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.. _ref-alter-user:

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``ALTER USER``
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Alter an existing database user.

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Synopsis
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    ALTER USER | ROLE username
      SET ( user_parameter = value [, ...] )


For details, see :ref:`ALTER ROLE<ref-alter-role>` as the two statements are
identical.
