Re: BUG #14009: pg_restore not restoring privilegs when one login/group role is missing - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Alexander Spiteri
Subject Re: BUG #14009: pg_restore not restoring privilegs when one login/group role is missing
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Msg-id CAKmUXWtc+AUEPbG1NYJGM4KgChfCawLyd2yn_mO4NGrbLgBY_A@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: BUG #14009: pg_restore not restoring privilegs when one login/group role is missing  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: BUG #14009: pg_restore not restoring privilegs when one login/group role is missing  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Please find a test case attached. I tried to put as much detail as i could.

Regards,
Alexander Spiteri


On 9 March 2016 at 21:32, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
alexander@spiteri.org writes:
> I have just installed a new instance of postgres 9.5.1 and have an issue
> with restoring the database, specifically privilges of the login/group
> roles.

> In the past I was working with postgres 8.4 and when I took a backup from
> the live server to the testing server pg_restore would grant all privilages
> to login/group roles which existed on the testing server and give an error
> for those that do not exist.

> On the new 9.5.1 server when I try to restore a database, if one login/group
> role does not exist pg_restore gives an error about it and then does not
> grant any rights to all the other login/group roles that do exist. No errors
> / notices are issued about the grants that are not applied.

That's fairly hard to believe.  Can you provide a self-contained test
case?

                        regards, tom lane

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