Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> John Scalia wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to build a new server from a copy of one of our live Dbs, and I imported the schema from there and am now
tryingto get this new server setup with the right ownership
>> and permissions. All the tables are/were owned by user A, and I've changed most of them to user B (names changed to
protectthe innocent, etc.,) However, some tables from the
>> pg_dump I used to grab the schema, do not show up using \d nor can I see them in pg_class. I only found them when I
triedto drop user A and psql complained. They appear to be in a
>> different schema and I could change them one at a time, but there are more than 2200 of these. For the tables I've
alreadychanged, I just performed an update on pg_class where
>> relowner = numeric ID of user A to set that to the numeric ID of user B.
>
> You could try the REASSIGN OWNED BY command.
>
> Doing manual updates of relowner might not be the greatest idea ever; if
> any of these tables have grants, the representation of the grantor might
> be borked after that.
And I wonder about dependency records too?
>
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