Re: Copying databases with extensions - pg_dump question - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bill Moran
Subject Re: Copying databases with extensions - pg_dump question
Date
Msg-id 20110121083915.10cb11dc.wmoran@potentialtech.com
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In response to Copying databases with extensions - pg_dump question  (Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>)
Responses Re: Copying databases with extensions - pg_dump question
List pgsql-general
In response to Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>:

> A fairly frequent operation I do is copying a database between servers,
> for which I use pg_dump. Since the database contains some extensions -
> most notably hstore and tsearch2, which need superuser privileges to
> install, I have a sort of a chicken-and-egg problem: the owner of the
> database (and all its objects) should be a non-superuser account so I
> can't simply use the output from pg_dump and expect everything to be
> correct after restoring it.

Why not?  If the ownership on the original database is non-superuser, then
that will be faithfully preserved when the database is restored.  What
are you doing to cause it to behave differently?

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Bill Moran
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