Re: copy users/groups

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Edward W(dot) Rouse" <erouse(at)comsquared(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: copy users/groups
Date: 2013-01-08 15:25:25
Message-ID: 50EC3A65.6080203@gmail.com
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On 01/08/2013 07:08 AM, Edward W. Rouse wrote:
> We have a database that was updated from 7.4.1 to 9.1.3. I've gotten
> everything working, but now it seems that the users and groups weren't
> restored. Probably because they weren't backed up. Is there a way to dump
> just the users and groups, plus the passwords and permissions, and restore
> them without overwriting what's been manually added to the new database?

Users/groups i.e roles are global to a cluster, you need to use pg_dumpall:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/app-pg-dumpall.html

pg_dumpall -g

Will dump only the global items.

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> Edward W. Rouse
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Adrian Klaver
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