Tom Lane wrote: > A thread over in -admin has made me realize the truth of $SUBJECT. > With --clean, pg_dumpall does indeed emit a DROP command for each > role, tablespace, or database ... just before recreating it. This > takes no account of dependencies and so the role and tablespace > drops are pretty much guaranteed to fail due to databases still > depending on them. > > I'm not sure if we need any real dependency analysis. It seems > like it would be sufficient to issue the drops in a separate > pass: > - drop all the databases > - drop all the tablespaces > - drop all the roles > - go on with creation > > The roles might still have references to each other in step 3, > but the DROP ROLE docs claim that's okay (I haven't tested).
Does your recently-applied patch address any of these TODO items? Stop dumping CASCADE on DROP TYPE commands in clean mode Allow pg_dump --clean to drop roles that own objects or have privileges -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers