Re: Restore dump into different databases/owners

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Hi!

Just a short followup...

Andreas Haumer schrieb:
> Hi!
>
> I must be blind or something but it seems I just can't
> figure out a working procedure to restore a PG dump in
> custom format (created with "pg_dump -Fc") into several
> different PG databases with different owners (i.e. for
> testing purposes)
>
> I want to do something like that:
>
> On database server A:
> pg_dump -Fc testdb_orig > testdb_orig.dump
>
> On database server B:
> createuser abc
> createuser def
> createuser xyz
> createdb -O abc abc_db
> createdb -O def def_db
> createdb -O xyz xyz_db

I now solved it by temporarily adding the "superuser" privilege
to the roles in question.

That way I can do the following:

pg_restore -d abc_db -O -U abc testdb_orig.dump
pg_restore -d def_db -O -U def testdb_orig.dump
pg_restore -d xyz_db -O -U xyz testdb_orig.dump

It's not as nice as I would like it to be, but it seems to work...

> Is there really no way to tell pg_restore to set the new
> database object's owner to a DB user which already exists?
>

It indeed looks like there is no direct way with pg_dump/pg_restore

Comments?

- - andreas

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