“ERROR: must be member of role” When creating schema in PostgreSQL

Question

I\'m logged in with a superuser account and this is the process I\'m doing:

1-> CREATE ROLE test WITH IN ROLE testroles PASSWORD \'testpasswd\'
2-> CREATE S         


        

Answer 1

I just ran into this using Amazon RDS.

A lot of the answers are already correct, but you can also just alter the role.

Here was my implementation

psql -h ${PGHOST} -p ${PGPORT:-5432} -U ${PGUSER:-postgres} -c "ALTER USER renderer WITH CREATEDB PASSWORD '$RENDERPASSWORD'"

So while changing the password, I am also adding the CREATEDB role permission to the role.

Answer 2

I was facing the same issue. To resolve this, I logged in with the newly created role and created the database. Somehow, grant does not work in RDS Postgres.

Answer 3

I ran into this issue when using CREATE DATABASE on Amazon RDS. I think it's essentially the same as using CREATE SCHEMA.

When using Amazon RDS the user issuing the CREATE DATABASE must be a member of the role that will be the owner of the database. In my case, the superuser account I'm using is called root, and I'm going to create a role o which is going to own a database d:

postgres=> CREATE ROLE o;
CREATE ROLE

postgres=> CREATE DATABASE d OWNER = o;
ERROR:  must be member of role "o"

postgres=> GRANT o TO root;
GRANT ROLE

postgres=> CREATE DATABASE d OWNER = o;
CREATE DATABASE