Re: Dumping roles improvements?

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Dumping roles improvements?
Date: 2011-10-12 19:33:28
Message-ID: 4E95EB88.9000505@dunslane.net
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On 10/12/2011 03:16 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 10/11/11 9:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I don't find this terribly convincing. I can see the rationales for two
>> endpoint cases: (1) restore these objects into exactly the same
>> ownership/permissions environment that existed before, and (2) restore
>> these objects with the absolute minimum of ownership/permissions
>> assumptions. The latter case seems to me to be covered already by
>> --no-owner --no-privileges.
> But what I'm asking for is (1). The problem is that the roles don't
> ship in the per-database pgdump file.
>

I think Tom's (1) assumes you already have that environment, not that it
will be created on the fly by pg_restore.

cheers

andrew

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