On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 12:43 PM Wells Oliver <wells(dot)oliver(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:
> I am doing a pg_restore of a database, which is nothing difficult, but I
> also am creating a new server first, and rather than painstakingly making
> sure I create all users and roles etc prior to pg_restore (so we can have
> the same perms), is there some obvious way of doing this I'm unawares of?
>
Running "pg_dumpall -g > source_roles.sql" and then scanning it for the
relevant entries doesn't seem too onerous. It's a lot easier than the
conceptually similar -- but much trickier -- process you need to go through
when migrating SQL Server databases.