pg_dumpall perms errata...

From: Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pg_dumpall perms errata...
Date: 2002-02-21 10:44:51
Message-ID: 20020221024451.E86510@ninja1.internal
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Quick FWIW. When I create user accounts for postgresql, I setup users
so that they can't create databases or users. No biggie. I also
create databases that are the same as the user's username and set the
datdba to the user's userID. This system works out great until doing
a pg_dumpall and psql -f foo.sql restore.

CREATE USER "user1" WITH SYSID 834 PASSWORD 'ugabooga' NOCREATEDB NOCREATEUSER;

[snip]

\connect template1 user1
CREATE DATABASE "user1" WITH TEMPLATE = template0 ENCODING = 'SQL_ASCII';
\connect user1 user1

Would it be possible to create the database from the original
connecting user, then update pg_database with the appropriate sysid?
Something like the following:

CREATE USER "user1" WITH SYSID 834 PASSWORD 'ugabooga' NOCREATEDB NOCREATEUSER;

[snip]

CREATE DATABASE "user1" WITH TEMPLATE = template0 ENCODING = 'SQL_ASCII';
UPDATE pg_database SET datdba = 834 WHERE datname = "user1";

\connect user1 user1
/* Continue restoring data.... */

--
Sean Chittenden

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