Re: pg_dump and roles

use pg_dumpall -g

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>wrote:

> Julie Warden wrote:
>
> > Is there a method to dump just the roles from a database, or otherwise
> > select them, so I can build a script to reload the roles? Otherwise, I
> > guess I'll just read the tables for each database and build the
> > security script from that.
>
> Roles are not per-database; they are global objects. You can get a dump
> of all the roles with pg_dumpall -g.
>
> If you really need to filter out roles per database, my best suggestion
> is to filter a global role dump them with the pg_shdepend catalog for
> each database.
>
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