Re: pg_dump and roles

Julie Warden wrote:

> Is there a method to dump just the roles from a database, or otherwise
> select them, so I can build a script to reload the roles? Otherwise, I
> guess I'll just read the tables for each database and build the
> security script from that.

Roles are not per-database; they are global objects.  You can get a dump
of all the roles with pg_dumpall -g.

If you really need to filter out roles per database, my best suggestion
is to filter a global role dump them with the pg_shdepend catalog for
each database.

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