From: Marcelo Martins <pglists@zeroaccess.org>
To: Chris Curvey <ccurvey@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: moving users/roles from one server to another?
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:08:19 -0600
Message-ID: <377DA777-0632-4EE0-9ED8-8F7D13A82CC5@zeroaccess.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18c933b9-afe9-48af-849c-50eb6d3f87d8@c36g2000prc.googlegroups.com>
References: <18c933b9-afe9-48af-849c-50eb6d3f87d8@c36g2000prc.googlegroups.com>
pg_dumpall has a flag for globals only which dumps an SQL file with
that info. Check it out pg_dumpall --help
On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:55, Chris Curvey <ccurvey@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a newbie to PG administration (although I have experience with
> other DBs). I need to move a single database to a brand new server.
>
> I've set up the new server with initdb, set up pg_hba.conf and
> postgresql.conf, and I can use dump and restore to move the database
> to the new environment.
>
> What I can't figure out is how to move all the existing users and
> roles over. I know about pg_dumpall, but that seems to be overkill --
> I don't need to move *all* the databases on my original server, just
> one of them.
>
> Is there a way to copy over just the users (with their passwords) and
> the roles?
>
>
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