> I'm also wondering about what side-effects this will have on pg_dump
> behavior. In particular, will pg_dump try to "ALTER OWNER public",
> and if so will that be appropriate? We haven't previously needed to
> assume that we are restoring into a database with the same datowner as
> we dumped from...
In my batch of pg_dump patches that have gone in, pg_dump will now do
exactly that. The reason was so that if someone altered the owner of
their public schema, it should be dumped like that.
Chris