Re: ACLs versus ALTER OWNER

>>How about pg_dumpall dumps all users as superusers, and then changes 
>>them back to what they're supposed to be at the bottom of the script :)
> 
> 
> Leaves you in kind of a dangerous state if the script doesn't complete,
> doesn't it?

If your script doesn't complete, it can leave you in all sorts of bad 
states, but I guess this is a reasonably bad one.

> Someone else suggested having pg_dump dump all objects without ownership
> (so, on restore, they'd all initially be owned by the user running the
> script, hopefully a superuser) and then doing ALTER OWNERs and GRANTs at
> the bottom.  This seems a little cleaner to me, though it's got the
> problem that somebody would have to go off and implement the remaining
> ALTER OWNER commands.

I guess that's me...

I'll have a crack at it, but don't let that stop anyone from piping up 
and helping me :)

Chris