Re: Backup single database roles and ACLs

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Rui Lopes wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How do I backup all the roles and ACLs that have permissions to a single
> database?
>
> pg_dumpall -g does not do the trick because it dumps all the roles from
> all the databases.

roles are part of the catalog/cluster not a database, thus -g is your
option.

It has been discussed in the past to have per database roles, but that
has not beed coded.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> I've read the system catalogs documentation [1], but I didn't figure how
> to relate the database name with the table names...
>
> So far I can get all the database names, owners oid and ACLs using:
>
> select oid,datname,datdba,datacl from pg_database;
>
> But how do I relate pg_database.oid with pg_class (to get table ACLs)?
> or maybe its related with other table that I'm missing?
>
>
> TIA!
>
> Best regards,
> Rui Lopes
>
> [1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/catalogs.html

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