Re: pg_dump / restore of empty database gives errors

Has this been addressed? I don't see any changes in initdb.sh or
pg_namespace.h.

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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tom Lane writes:
>
> > Hmm. So the real story here is that the permissions set up by initdb
> > for PUBLIC are actually an illegal state: postgres has granted
> > permissions to public that it isn't allowed to.
>
> Yes, the way the permissions are initialized in the catalog templates
>
> DATA(insert OID = 11 ( "pg_catalog" PGUID "{=U}" ));
> DATA(insert OID = 99 ( "pg_toast" PGUID "{=}" ));
> DATA(insert OID = 2200 ( "public" PGUID "{=UC}" ));
>
> produce an invalid state. I hadn't thought that this would create a
> problem for pg_dump, but I will hurry up fixing it. (I will probably put
> explicit GRANT commands into initdb.)
>
> > (There may also be an issue with the order in which pg_dump issues its
> > revoke/grant operations, ie, there might be legal combinations that it
> > can't reproduce.)
>
> If you don't do manual surgery on aclitem's then I am convinced that it is
> not possible to arrive at an undumpable state. This is a consequence of
> the way it's implemented.
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
>
>
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