From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: John Scalia <jayknowsunix@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Trying to change the owner of some tables
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 00:00:26 -0300
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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 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.
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.
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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