Re: pg_restore but for full user and roles, etc

Ah, perfect:

pg_dumpall -g -U postgres -h myhost --no-role-passwords

Exactly what I am after, works on RDS.

On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 10:24 AM Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> pg_dumpall has "--roles-only" and "--no-role-passwords" options (in at
> least PG 14).
>
> I'm 99.9% sure that "--no-role-passwords" was added specifically because
> of AWS RDS security policy.
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 1:19 PM Wells Oliver <wells(dot)oliver(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ah, sorry for the multiple responses, but it doesn't seem like pg_dumpall
>> is permitted in AWS RDS. If anyone has any other clever ways of getting to
>> this info, would appreciate any ideas.
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 10:15 AM Wells Oliver <wells(dot)oliver(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks. Yeah, I was basically looking for the role/user only version of
>>> pg_dumpall -g, where I'd then handle specific DB restore on its own. Your
>>> right thought, I can copy out what I care about from the output.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 10:06 AM Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Wells Oliver
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>>
>

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