From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Aditya D <dsaditya91@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: User/Roles, Owner, and privileges migration strategy
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 21:32:08 +0200
Message-ID: <202310251932.ozy6lrpoinh2@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1004361.1698256270@sss.pgh.pa.us>
On 2023-Oct-25, Tom Lane wrote:
> I kind of suspect that that's going to be a dead end. If you can't
> run dump and restore as superuser, it's going to be very hard to deal
> with a multi-user database, unless you use --no-owner which of course
> doesn't restore the multiple object ownerships.
>
> You might have to resort to separately dumping the objects belonging
> to each user, and then running each restore as that user.
In Postgres you're probably right, but I understood that this is RDS,
which offers a superuser-of-sorts. It allows some alien stuff to be
done. Though ... re-reading the question, I see now he's saying it may
be RDS or maybe *other* DBaaS providers, so maybe it works and maybe it
doesn't, depending on the specifics.
--
Álvaro Herrera Breisgau, Deutschland — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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