Re: pg_restore ERROR: permission denied to change default privileges

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Rachel Roch <rroch(at)tutanota(dot)de>
Cc: Pgsql General <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_restore ERROR: permission denied to change default privileges
Date: 2025-06-13 18:23:07
Message-ID: 1407215.1749838987@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Rachel Roch <rroch(at)tutanota(dot)de> writes:
> This is the error I am seeing:
> pg_restore: error: could not execute query: ERROR: permission denied to change default privilegesCommand was: ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES FOR ROLE "postgres" IN SCHEMA "public" GRANT SELECT ON TABLES TO "my_database_ro";

Well, you aren't going to be able to do that if you're not superuser.

You could undo that ALTER in the source database and re-make the dump,
or edit the dump script to remove this command, or not use
pg_restore's "-1" switch and just ignore this error.

regards, tom lane

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