Re: roles

As I understand things, roles are not specific to databases. In
PGAdmin, when I connect to a server, I see five collections of objects:
databases, tablespaces, jobs, group roles, and login roles. Roles are
separate from databases. So, for a given server, login and group roles
apply to all databases on that server.

Roles can be exported using pg_dump's "global" option, which I think is
"-g". Check the help for pg_dump.

Good luck!

RobR, whose advice may well be worth what you have paid for it.

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From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of salah jubeh
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 8:07 AM
To: pgsql
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] roles

Hello,

I have two databases, I need to insure that both databases has the same
roles. tables, schemas, views must have the same permissions and
privileges. you can say and Identical clones. I can synchronize the
roles using these statements

SELECT DISTINCT 'CREATE USER '||usename||';' FROM pg_user;

SELECT 'GRANT '||g.usename||' TO '||u.usename||';' FROM pg_auth_members
a JOIN pg_user u ON a.member = u.usesysid JOIN pg_user g ON a.roleid =
g.usesysid;

SELECT 'ALTER ROLE '||usename||' WITH SUPERUSER;' FROM pg_user WHERE
usesuper;

However, How can I synchronize the privileges that are assigned to the
database entities i.e. schemas , tables, and views.

If that solution is not possible, how can I create an identical clone of
my database including roles. when I use pg_restore normally the owner of
the tables are changed and you need to recreate the roles in advance

Regards