Re: Version upgrade: is restoring the postgres database needed?

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 11:51 AM, Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> wrote:

> Good. What, then, have I forgotten to restore such that the "Access
> privileges" are showing on my current 9.2 servers, but not on the
> newly-restored 9.6.6 server?
>
> *Current*
> postgres=# \l
> List of databases
> Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access
> privileges
> -------------+----------+----------+-------------+----------
> ---+-----------------------
> CSSCAT_STI | CSS | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
> CSS=CTc/CSS +
> | | | | |
> =Tc/CSS +
> | | | | |
> app_user=CTc/CSS
> CSSCAT_STIB | CSS | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
> CSS=CTc/CSS +
> | | | | |
> =Tc/CSS +
> | | | | |
> app_user=CTc/CSS
> CSSCAT_STIC | CSS | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
> CSS=CTc/CSS +
> | | | | |
> =Tc/CSS +
> | | | | |
> app_user=CTc/CSS
>
> *Newly restored*
> postgres=# \l
> List of databases
> Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access
> privileges
> -------------+----------+----------+-------------+----------
> ---+-----------------------
> CSSCAT_STIB | CSS | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
> CSSCAT_STIC | CSS | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
> postgres | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
>
>
FWIW none of my databases other than template0 and template1 have anything
listed for Access privileges like that. I'm not even sure exactly what
those are for :(

Any privileges from REVOKEs and GRANTs will be in the dump, so those are
restored.