Re: [ADMIN] pg_dump problem

What version of PostgreSQL are you running.  This should work in 6.3.2.


> I have a problem with the dump&restore process. When I dump my database,
> the users I have are not created in the dump. I solved this process by
> adding 'create user' statements to the beginning of the dump file.
>
> I need to dump my database with all grant/revoke permissions, since I have
> a lot of tables that have modified access permissions.
>
> Dumping this isn't a problem (-z parameter with pg_dump/pg_dumpall), only
> restoring the dump is. I would have expected a number of grant and revoke
> statements in the dump, but instead, the script tries to run a few
> update queries on pg_class directly.
>
> During the restore process, all I get is 'permission denied'-messages when
> the script tries to execute the updates on pg_class. Apparently, users do
> not have direct modification rights on pg_class in version 6.3.2 and
> everything has to be done with grant and revoke permissions (is this
> true?).
>
> Do you have a suggestion on how I can fix this problem? I really do
> not want to go through my dump manually since it's well over 10Gb.....
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -kees
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