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From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Siraj G <tosiraj.g@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Need help - Unable to grant a role
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 09:00:09 +0100
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On Thu, 2024-02-29 at 06:36 +0530, Siraj G wrote:
> I have a PgSQL 15.4 database newly created. I created a user and is using it
> to restore a backup of another database, but unable to do so as it is failing
> with the below error:
> Error: role 'hd*********' does not exist.
> 
> I even tried to grant pg_read_system_files andĀ pg_write_system_files roles,
> even then I am getting the same error.

Users (= roles) are not part of the database dump, because they are not part
of the database.

Dump and restore the roles separately, *before* you restore the database.

You can dump the roles with "pg_dumpall -r".

Yours,
Laurenz Albe





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