Re: pg_dump does not include database-level user-defined GUC variables?

From: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
To: Abelard Hoffman <abelardhoffman(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_dump does not include database-level user-defined GUC variables?
Date: 2014-09-16 15:39:02
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Abelard Hoffman <abelardhoffman(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I have a user-defined GUC variable that was set at the db level. e.g.,
>
> ALTER DATABASE mydb SET myapp.user_id TO '1'
>
> Works fine. When I do a pg_dump, however, that variable isn't included.
> Is that expected? It's not really an attribute of the database?

That sort of information *about the database* is stored at the
cluster level, not in the database itself. Take a look at
pg_dumpall.

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Kevin Grittner
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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