Re: pg_dump permissions problem

Tom Lane wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> > My live 7.3.4 database dumps data like this:
> 
> > REVOKE ALL ON TABLE log_freeprofile FROM PUBLIC;
> > GRANT ALL ON TABLE log_freeprofile TO brett;
> > GRANT INSERT,SELECT,UPDATE ON TABLE log_freeprofile TO "au-php";
> > GRANT SELECT ON TABLE log_freeprofile TO GROUP readonly;
> > REVOKE ALL ON TABLE log_freeprofile FROM auadmin;
> 
> > Now, loading this into 7.4beta3 gives this error:
> > ERROR:  dependent privileges exist
> > When executing the REVOKE ALL line.
> 
> Yeah, this is a known issue.  I think Peter was off looking into solutions.
> It's clearly a "must fix" item.  Not sure if Bruce's open-items entry
>     Fix REVOKE ALL ON FUNCTION error when removing owner permissions
> describes exactly the same problem or something else.

Yep, that is it.  It was reported as a bug by two people recently.

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