Re: Dumping roles improvements? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Dumping roles improvements?
Date
Msg-id 201110111640.p9BGeWB07524@momjian.us
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In response to Dumping roles improvements?  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: Dumping roles improvements?  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> It occurs to me that we could really use two things to make it easier to
> move copies of database stuff around:
> 
> pg_dump -r, which would include a CREATE ROLE for all roles needed to
> restore the database (probably without passwords), and
> 
> pg_dumpall -r --no-passwords which would dump the roles but without
> CREATE PASSWORD statements.  This would be useful for cloning databases
> for use in Dev, Test and Staging, where you don't what to copy the md5s
> of passwords for possible cracking.

What would this do that pg_dumpall --globals-only doesn't?

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