The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 16772
Logged by: Edwin Polkerman
Email address: edwin.polkerman@splendiddata.com
PostgreSQL version: 13.1
Operating system: CentOS 7.8.2003 (x86_64)
Description:
Trying to create a dump with following command line:
pg_dumpall -h <database host> -p 5432 -U user1 -f /tmp/dump.out
--disable-triggers -S user2 -v
User1 is a regular user and user2 is a superuser like the documentation
states: "Specify the superuser user name to use when disabling triggers"
Expected result:
The dump will complete without error's
Observed result:
Directly after starting the command following error is shown:
pg_dumpall: executing SELECT pg_catalog.set_config('search_path', '',
false);
pg_dumpall: executing SELECT oid, rolname, rolsuper, rolinherit,
rolcreaterole, rolcreatedb, rolcanlogin, rolconnlimit, rolpassword,
rolvaliduntil, rolreplication, rolbypassrls,
pg_catalog.shobj_description(oid, 'pg_authid') as rolcomment, rolname =
current_user AS is_current_user FROM pg_authid WHERE rolname !~ '^pg_' ORDER
BY 2
pg_dumpall: error: query failed: ERROR: permission denied for table
pg_authid
pg_dumpall: error: query was: SELECT oid, rolname, rolsuper, rolinherit,
rolcreaterole, rolcreatedb, rolcanlogin, rolconnlimit, rolpassword,
rolvaliduntil, rolreplication, rolbypassrls,
pg_catalog.shobj_description(oid, 'pg_authid') as rolcomment, rolname =
current_user AS is_current_user FROM pg_authid WHERE rolname !~ '^pg_' ORDER
BY 2
Although a superuser is provided with -S, it looks like this is not used but
it uses the user (user1) making the connection in the connection string.
Running the command as superuser (-U user2) and omitting -S works as
expected
