Re: Owner Issue When Migrating Database to New Server

Campbell, Lance написа:
> PostgreSQL: 8.2.4
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> OS: Linux Red Hat 4.x 64 bit
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> I have a database running on serverA with postgres user userA. I want
> to migrate the database to ServerB with a postgres user userB. Notice
> the users are not the same. I did the following to put the database on
> the new server:
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> 1) I created the database on serverB with userB.
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> 2) I then did pg_dump -h serverA -U userA dbname | psql -h serverB
> -U userB dbname
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> This of course failed. The user userA was not in the database found on
> serverB. I then did the following:
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> 1) I created the database on serverB with userB.
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> 2) On serverB I did pg_dump -h serverA -U userA dbname >
> postgreSQL.out
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> 3) I then did a find and replace on userA with userB through NANO
> on the file postgreSQL.out
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> 4) I then did psql -h serverB -U userB dbname -f postgreSQL.out
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> Is there a better way to do this?
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Yes - use the "--no-owner" option for "pg_dump" when creating the dump file.

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Milen A. Radev