| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| 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/
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