Francisco J Reyes a écrit:
> I have 1 FreeBSD machine and 1 Linux, Red Hat, machine.
> I will need to periodically do a pg_dumpall from the Linux machine to the
> FreeBSD machine.
>
> This has been a problem because on Linux the superuser ID is postgres and
> on FreeBSD it is pgsl.
>
> When I try to restore to the FreeBSD machine it crashes because it can not
> connect to the postgres user ID. I replaced all occurrences of postgres
> with pgsql to get the load to work, but it was very time consuming (2.9 GB
> file).
>
> Any suggestions on how to easily move data between these two systems?
> I have only a handfull databases so doing individual pg_dumps may work,
> but my fear is that if someone in my team makes a new DB (ie for new
> development) that they may not tell me and I may not find out about it
> until the machine has crashed and they come asking for a restore. :-)
vipw
change the username *ONLY* (don't touch the IDs)
vi /etc/group
change its groupname, if your user has its own group
that should be ok.
keep in mind that scripts doing such as 'su - pgsql' need an update too. (sed is your friend)
