Re: pg_dump schema in pg11 without global permissions

On 7/23/19 3:19 PM, Sergey Koposov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to copy a schema from one PG database (ver 11) to PG 10.
> Previously the first database version was 9.6 and the way I did the copying was
> 
> ssh -o Compression=no user@host '/opt/pgsql/bin/pg_dump --no-tablespaces -n schemaname -Fc  -U dbadmin dbname'  |
pg_restore-U dbadmin -h localhost -1 -d dbnme
 
> 
> However after migrating from PG 9.6 to 11, when I did the same thing as before, I started getting a bunch of commands
inthe dump like this
 
> 
> GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE dbname TO usernameXX;
> 
> which don't work for me because the list of users is different between different machines.
> It is clear that the change is related to the way pg_dump is implemented now in PG11 that global objects are dumped.
> But the question is how do I duplicate the previous behaviour, i.e. Dump just the schema and permission on the
schema,not on the database.
 

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/app-pgdump.html

-x
--no-privileges
--no-acl

     Prevent dumping of access privileges (grant/revoke commands).

> 
> I do know that I could grep the dump, but that's very annoying when dumping hundreds of millions of rows.
> 
> Thanks in advance for the help.
> 
>        Sergey
> 


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