From: Jan-Peter Seifert <Jan-Peter.Seifert@gmx.de>
To: Kevin Kempter <kevink@consistentstate.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: User table porting
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:29:53 +0100
Message-ID: <49B6B1A1.40908@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200903101123.01310.kevink@consistentstate.com>
References: <1178C89D-62DF-44AA-A8CB-97FA782E869D@indiana.edu>
<200903101123.01310.kevink@consistentstate.com>
Hello,
Kevin Kempter wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 March 2009 11:13:54 Carol Walter wrote:
>> I want to recreate users with their passwords from one database
>> cluster on another database cluster. What would be the best way for
>> me to do this?
> from the "old" server run this (where <new_db_cluster> is the new server):
> pg_dumpall -g | psql -h <new_db_cluster>
Isn't it generally better to use the newer binaries from the target
server especially with psql?
I remember getting quite a few errors when restoring a pg_dumpall from
an 8.1 server, because the create user syntax in the dump file was obsolete.
You might need some more options for piping (-U etc.):
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/app-pg-dumpall.html
Peter
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