Re: How to restore from pg_dumpall output

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

    Tom> Laura Conrad <lconrad@laymusic.org> writes:
    >> pg_dumpall -p 8050 >/tmp/db.sql
    >> I then tried to restore (again as the postgres user), as documented in
    >> the pg_dumpall man page:
    >> psql -f /tmp/db.sql template1
    >> It does a few things, and then says:
    >> psql:/tmp/db.sql:16: \connect: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication
    >> failed for user "bostonre"

    Tom> I believe this will work better if you use "-X
    Tom> use-set-session-authorization" to pg_dump (which should be
    Tom> the default, but isn't yet).


I tried that, but I still get the same error out of psql, although the
pg_dumpall output now says:

        SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION bostonre;

instead of:

        \connect - bostonre


    Tom> Without that, you need an authorization configuration that
    Tom> will let you connect as someone else --- which IDENT won't,
    Tom> superuser or no.  (You could set up an ident map to let that
    Tom> happen, but it'd be tedious if you have lots of users to keep
    Tom> track of.)

There are only 2.  So I tried doing that, but my first guess on how didn't
work.

But to make that guess, I had to look at pg_hba.conf and it had lots
of useful stuff in it.  I decided it wasn't going to kill me to just
trust everyone on my local machine for 5 minutes, so I did that.  Not
the kosher thing for a real database administrator to do, but this is
my home machine, and the dog doesn't know how to log on.

So I have my database back -- thanks for the help.

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