Re: Trying to change the owner of some tables - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From John Scalia
Subject Re: Trying to change the owner of some tables
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Msg-id CABzCKRBeQJEZUGctkPvPJYd8woU96B-Bd+G2jPH=N_sJrcrhHg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Trying to change the owner of some tables  (Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>)
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Good thought Guillaume, but the only Dbs on this cluster are:

The one I'm working in
postgres
template0
template1

and that's it. Thinking these errant tables might have got created in the postgres db, I did a \c postgres, then did \d in there. It came back with no relations found.

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 1:17 AM, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:


2015-06-25 5:42 GMT+02:00 John Scalia <jayknowsunix@gmail.com>:
Thanks guys, I was not aware of that command, but it did NOT succeed in changing these strangely missing tables. The tables appear, when I try to drop the old owner as:

second_schema.partition_table_name_one;

then two, three, etc.,  I've only been successful using

alter table second_schema.partition_table_name_one owner to userB;

But I'd rather not do that for 2000+ entries.


The only reason that would explain why you can't see them with \d and in pg_class is that they are on another database. Same cluster but another database. You should connect to the other databases and use REASSIGN OWNED in each of them.
 

On 6/24/2015 8:01 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:44 PM, John Scalia <jayknowsunix@gmail.com> 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 trying to 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 protect the 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 tried to 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 already changed, 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.

Now, this is a 9.2 server on CentOS, but I've not seen this behavior anywhere before. Where else should I see these? The only success I've had is \d+ new_schema.* and that doesn't
help me change them.

​ Possibly this...

David J.




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