Re: User/Roles, Owner, and privileges migration strategy - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: User/Roles, Owner, and privileges migration strategy
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Msg-id 202310251932.ozy6lrpoinh2@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: User/Roles, Owner, and privileges migration strategy  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 2023-Oct-25, Tom Lane wrote:

> I kind of suspect that that's going to be a dead end.  If you can't
> run dump and restore as superuser, it's going to be very hard to deal
> with a multi-user database, unless you use --no-owner which of course
> doesn't restore the multiple object ownerships.
> 
> You might have to resort to separately dumping the objects belonging
> to each user, and then running each restore as that user.

In Postgres you're probably right, but I understood that this is RDS,
which offers a superuser-of-sorts.  It allows some alien stuff to be
done.  Though ... re-reading the question, I see now he's saying it may
be RDS or maybe *other* DBaaS providers, so maybe it works and maybe it
doesn't, depending on the specifics.

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Álvaro Herrera        Breisgau, Deutschland  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/



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