On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 08:54:20AM -0500, Rick Schumeyer wrote:
> To date I have always used pg on a system where I had pg superuser status.
> I'm trying to move a database from such a system to one where I am just 
> a user, and I'm having a couple of problems.
> 
> The first is, the output of pg_dump has a lot of lines like:
> 
> ALTER FUNCTION some_function OWNER TO rick;
> 
> The user 'rick' does not exist on the target system.  I've looked at the 
> help for pg_dump...it looks like specifying "no-owner" will skip these 
> lines.  Are there any side effects I need to be aware of?
 
Yes; everything will be owned by whatever user loads the dump in. In
this case, that's probably what you want.

> The second problem is the statement:
> 
> CREATE PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE plpgsql;
> 
> Apparently I need to be a pg superuser to do this?  Do I need to get the 
Yes.

> db admin to run this statement before I load the database?  What if, 
Yes.

> during testing, I need to drop/create the database?  Do I need the admin 
> to run something every time?

Yes, unless he adds it to template1.
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Jim Nasby                                            [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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