Updated on 2026-01-05 GMT+08:00

Deleting Database Users

Function

This API is used to delete database users. Before calling this API:

Calling Method

For details, see Calling APIs.

Authorization Information

Each account has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the required permissions.

  • If you are using role/policy-based authorization, see Permissions and Supported Actions for details on the required permissions.
  • If you are using identity policy-based authorization, the following identity policy-based permissions are required.

    Action

    Access Level

    Resource Type (*: required)

    Condition Key

    Alias

    Dependency

    gaussdbformysql:user:delete

    Write

    instance *

    • g:EnterpriseProjectId

    • g:ResourceTag/<tag-key>

    gaussdb:user:delete

    -

URI

DELETE /v3/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/db-users

Table 1 URI parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

project_id

Yes

String

Definition

Project ID of a tenant in a region.

To obtain this value, see Obtaining a Project ID.

Constraints

N/A

Range

The value contains 32 characters. Only letters and digits are allowed.

Default Value

N/A

instance_id

Yes

String

Definition

Instance ID, which uniquely identifies an instance.

Constraints

N/A

Range

The value contains 36 characters with a suffix of in07. Only letters and digits are allowed.

Default Value

N/A

Request Parameters

Table 2 Request header parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

X-Auth-Token

Yes

String

Definition

User token. To obtain this value, call the IAM API for obtaining a user token.

The value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is the token value.

Constraints

N/A

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

X-Language

No

String

Definition

Request language type.

Constraints

N/A

Range

  • en-us

  • zh-cn

Default Value

en-us

Table 3 Request body parameter

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

users

Yes

Array of ListDeleteDatabaseUserRequest objects

Definition

List of database users to be deleted. The list contains up to 50 database users.

Constraints

N/A

Table 4 ListDeleteDatabaseUserRequest

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

name

Yes

String

Definition

Database username.

Constraints

N/A

Range

The username can consist of 1 to 32 characters. Only letters, digits, and underscores (_) are allowed.

Default Value

N/A

host

Yes

String

Definition

Host IP address.

Constraints

N/A

Range

  • If the value is %, all IP addresses are allowed to access your TaurusDB instance.

  • If the value is 10.10.10.%, all IP addresses in the subnet 10.10.10.X are allowed to access your TaurusDB instance.

  • To specify multiple IP addresses, separate them with commas (,), for example, 192.168.0.1,172.16.213.9 (no spaces before or after the comma).

Default Value

%

Response Parameters

Status code: 202

Table 5 Response body parameter

Parameter

Type

Description

job_id

String

Definition

ID of the task for deleting database users.

Range

N/A

Status code: 400

Table 6 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error message.

Status code: 500

Table 7 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error message.

Example Request

Deleting the database user whose host IP address is 127.0.0.1

DELETE https://{endpoint}/v3/054e292c9880d4992f02c0196d3ea468/instances/a23fb62bd61e4e9e9636fd2225f395bein07/db-users
{
  "users" : [ {
    "name" : "gaussdb_mysql_user1",
    "host" : "127.0.0.1"
  } ]
}

Example Response

Status code: 202

Success.

{
  "job_id" : "dff1d289-4d03-4942-8b9f-463ea07c000d"
}

SDK Sample Code

The SDK sample code is as follows.

Deleting the database user whose host IP address is 127.0.0.1

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package com.huaweicloud.sdk.test;

import com.huaweicloud.sdk.core.auth.ICredential;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.core.auth.BasicCredentials;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.core.exception.ConnectionException;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.core.exception.RequestTimeoutException;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.core.exception.ServiceResponseException;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.gaussdb.v3.region.GaussDBRegion;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.gaussdb.v3.*;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.gaussdb.v3.model.*;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class DeleteGaussMySqlDatabaseUserSolution {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // The AK and SK used for authentication are hard-coded or stored in plaintext, which has great security risks. It is recommended that the AK and SK be stored in ciphertext in configuration files or environment variables and decrypted during use to ensure security.
        // In this example, AK and SK are stored in environment variables for authentication. Before running this example, set environment variables CLOUD_SDK_AK and CLOUD_SDK_SK in the local environment
        String ak = System.getenv("CLOUD_SDK_AK");
        String sk = System.getenv("CLOUD_SDK_SK");
        String projectId = "{project_id}";

        ICredential auth = new BasicCredentials()
                .withProjectId(projectId)
                .withAk(ak)
                .withSk(sk);

        GaussDBClient client = GaussDBClient.newBuilder()
                .withCredential(auth)
                .withRegion(GaussDBRegion.valueOf("<YOUR REGION>"))
                .build();
        DeleteGaussMySqlDatabaseUserRequest request = new DeleteGaussMySqlDatabaseUserRequest();
        request.withInstanceId("{instance_id}");
        DeleteDatabaseUserRequest body = new DeleteDatabaseUserRequest();
        List<ListDeleteDatabaseUserRequest> listbodyUsers = new ArrayList<>();
        listbodyUsers.add(
            new ListDeleteDatabaseUserRequest()
                .withName("gaussdb_mysql_user1")
                .withHost("127.0.0.1")
        );
        body.withUsers(listbodyUsers);
        request.withBody(body);
        try {
            DeleteGaussMySqlDatabaseUserResponse response = client.deleteGaussMySqlDatabaseUser(request);
            System.out.println(response.toString());
        } catch (ConnectionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (RequestTimeoutException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (ServiceResponseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.out.println(e.getHttpStatusCode());
            System.out.println(e.getRequestId());
            System.out.println(e.getErrorCode());
            System.out.println(e.getErrorMsg());
        }
    }
}

Deleting the database user whose host IP address is 127.0.0.1

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# coding: utf-8

import os
from huaweicloudsdkcore.auth.credentials import BasicCredentials
from huaweicloudsdkgaussdb.v3.region.gaussdb_region import GaussDBRegion
from huaweicloudsdkcore.exceptions import exceptions
from huaweicloudsdkgaussdb.v3 import *

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # The AK and SK used for authentication are hard-coded or stored in plaintext, which has great security risks. It is recommended that the AK and SK be stored in ciphertext in configuration files or environment variables and decrypted during use to ensure security.
    # In this example, AK and SK are stored in environment variables for authentication. Before running this example, set environment variables CLOUD_SDK_AK and CLOUD_SDK_SK in the local environment
    ak = os.environ["CLOUD_SDK_AK"]
    sk = os.environ["CLOUD_SDK_SK"]
    projectId = "{project_id}"

    credentials = BasicCredentials(ak, sk, projectId)

    client = GaussDBClient.new_builder() \
        .with_credentials(credentials) \
        .with_region(GaussDBRegion.value_of("<YOUR REGION>")) \
        .build()

    try:
        request = DeleteGaussMySqlDatabaseUserRequest()
        request.instance_id = "{instance_id}"
        listUsersbody = [
            ListDeleteDatabaseUserRequest(
                name="gaussdb_mysql_user1",
                host="127.0.0.1"
            )
        ]
        request.body = DeleteDatabaseUserRequest(
            users=listUsersbody
        )
        response = client.delete_gauss_my_sql_database_user(request)
        print(response)
    except exceptions.ClientRequestException as e:
        print(e.status_code)
        print(e.request_id)
        print(e.error_code)
        print(e.error_msg)

Deleting the database user whose host IP address is 127.0.0.1

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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/huaweicloud/huaweicloud-sdk-go-v3/core/auth/basic"
    gaussdb "github.com/huaweicloud/huaweicloud-sdk-go-v3/services/gaussdb/v3"
	"github.com/huaweicloud/huaweicloud-sdk-go-v3/services/gaussdb/v3/model"
    region "github.com/huaweicloud/huaweicloud-sdk-go-v3/services/gaussdb/v3/region"
)

func main() {
    // The AK and SK used for authentication are hard-coded or stored in plaintext, which has great security risks. It is recommended that the AK and SK be stored in ciphertext in configuration files or environment variables and decrypted during use to ensure security.
    // In this example, AK and SK are stored in environment variables for authentication. Before running this example, set environment variables CLOUD_SDK_AK and CLOUD_SDK_SK in the local environment
    ak := os.Getenv("CLOUD_SDK_AK")
    sk := os.Getenv("CLOUD_SDK_SK")
    projectId := "{project_id}"

    auth := basic.NewCredentialsBuilder().
        WithAk(ak).
        WithSk(sk).
        WithProjectId(projectId).
        Build()

    client := gaussdb.NewGaussDBClient(
        gaussdb.GaussDBClientBuilder().
            WithRegion(region.ValueOf("<YOUR REGION>")).
            WithCredential(auth).
            Build())

    request := &model.DeleteGaussMySqlDatabaseUserRequest{}
	request.InstanceId = "{instance_id}"
	var listUsersbody = []model.ListDeleteDatabaseUserRequest{
        {
            Name: "gaussdb_mysql_user1",
            Host: "127.0.0.1",
        },
    }
	request.Body = &model.DeleteDatabaseUserRequest{
		Users: listUsersbody,
	}
	response, err := client.DeleteGaussMySqlDatabaseUser(request)
	if err == nil {
        fmt.Printf("%+v\n", response)
    } else {
        fmt.Println(err)
    }
}

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Status Code

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Error Code

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