On 10/11/2011 12:40 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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?
>
As stated, it would not export the passwords.
cheers
andrew
