Re: dump + restore didn't include schemas

On 31 Jan 2004 at 11:56, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Dan Langille" <dan(at)langille(dot)org> writes:
> >>> I upgraded two servers today from 7.3.* to 7.4.1. In both cases, the
> >>> schemas which existed in the original databases were not created in
> >>> the new database.
>
> > I found three of these messages in /var/log/messages on the box which
> > had the problem.
>
> > ERROR: permission denied for database pg_freebsddiary.org.schemas
>
> Oh, I bet I know what this is: the owners of those schemas don't have
> CREATE SCHEMA privileges, right? You made the schemas as superuser with
> CREATE SCHEMA foo AUTHORIZATION bar.
>
> 7.4's pg_dump will use AUTHORIZATION so that situations like this
> restore correctly, but 7.3's pg_dump is stupid and tries to create the
> schema as its owner.

Does it matter that I used pg_dumpall?

> In general I recommend that during an upgrade, you use the new version's
> pg_dump to dump from the old server. This way you get the benefit of
> whatever improvements have been made in pg_dump since the previous
> release.

Should that recommendation be added to the "If You Are Upgrading"
section of INSTALL?
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