Re: pg_dump schema in pg11 without global permissions - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Sergey Koposov
Subject Re: pg_dump schema in pg11 without global permissions
Date
Msg-id 1563921764.29206.97.camel@cmu.edu
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In response to Re: pg_dump schema in pg11 without global permissions  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
Responses Re: pg_dump schema in pg11 without global permissions  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
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On Tue, 2019-07-23 at 15:37 -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 7/23/19 3:23 PM, Sergey Koposov wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2019-07-23 at 15:21 -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 7/23/19 3:19 PM, Sergey Koposov wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I'm trying to copy a schema from one PG database (ver 11) to PG 10.
> > > > Previously the first database version was 9.6 and the way I did the copying was
> > > > 
> > > > ssh -o Compression=no user@host '/opt/pgsql/bin/pg_dump --no-tablespaces -n schemaname -Fc  -U dbadmin
dbname'  |pg_restore -U dbadmin -h localhost -1 -d dbnme
 
> > > > 
> > > > However after migrating from PG 9.6 to 11, when I did the same thing as before, I started getting a bunch of
commandsin the dump like this
 
> > > > 
> > > > GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE dbname TO usernameXX;
> > > > 
> > > > which don't work for me because the list of users is different between different machines.
> > > > It is clear that the change is related to the way pg_dump is implemented now in PG11 that global objects are
dumped.
> > > > But the question is how do I duplicate the previous behaviour, i.e. Dump just the schema and permission on the
schema,not on the database.
 
> > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/app-pgdump.html
> > > 
> > > -x
> > > --no-privileges
> > > --no-acl
> > > 
> > >       Prevent dumping of access privileges (grant/revoke commands).
> > Yes I saw that, but that will not dump privileges on the schema itself, which were dumped before as far as I
understand...
 
> So the roles for the schema don't change, but everything else does?

The schema permissions are granted to a generic user 'dbuser'. And a bunch of users are members of this role and that's
howthey access the schema.  
 
The database permissions on the other hand are granted specifically per individual user. 

I am not saying this is optimal, but it would be very annoying if now it became impossible to deal with this... 

      S

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