On 21/01/2011 14:39, Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Ivan Voras<ivo...@freebsd.org>:

A fairly frequent operation I do is copying a database between servers,
for which I use pg_dump. Since the database contains some extensions -
most notably hstore and tsearch2, which need superuser privileges to
install, I have a sort of a chicken-and-egg problem: the owner of the
database (and all its objects) should be a non-superuser account so I
can't simply use the output from pg_dump and expect everything to be
correct after restoring it.

Why not?  If the ownership on the original database is non-superuser, then
that will be faithfully preserved when the database is restored.  What
are you doing to cause it to behave differently?

I have reviewed my operations and it looks like these are the important differences:

* The database copy might be from a development machine to production so I use pg_dump -O to remove any accidentally entered unwanted user ownership data * The database restore on the target machine is done as a nonprivileged user (the target owner of the database)

Are there better ways to do this?


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