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Who owns content but isn't in the user listing?

Owners that don't appear among site users: departed people, or system and service accounts hidden from /users.

SELECT c.owner_pseudo, count(*) AS items
FROM state.v_content_current c
LEFT JOIN state.v_users_current u ON u.user_pseudo = c.owner_pseudo
WHERE u.user_pseudo IS NULL AND c.owner_pseudo IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY 1
ORDER BY items DESC;

Resolve any pseudonym locally with tca resolve U-0042 to see who it was.

Why it matters

Content owned by a departed user keeps working until something needs the owner — a credential refresh, a permission change, an extract failure. That is usually the worst possible moment to discover the owner no longer exists.


Needs an attached package file — see the setup snippet.