Re: pg_dump and roles

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Julie Warden <Julie_Warden(at)nospam(dot)hotmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_dump and roles
Date: 2008-10-03 17:35:50
Message-ID: 20081003173550.GE3817@alvh.no-ip.org
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Julie Warden wrote:

> Is there a method to dump just the roles from a database, or otherwise
> select them, so I can build a script to reload the roles? Otherwise, I
> guess I'll just read the tables for each database and build the
> security script from that.

Roles are not per-database; they are global objects. You can get a dump
of all the roles with pg_dumpall -g.

If you really need to filter out roles per database, my best suggestion
is to filter a global role dump them with the pg_shdepend catalog for
each database.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

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