Re: [ADMIN] Upgrade problem, with GRANT

> Well, since I am posting I might as well ask two questions..
>
> FIrst, when I upgraded from 6.2.1 to 6.3.2 I performed a pg_dumpall and
> after I did an import of the db.out.. All seemed okay, and I assumed
> that permissions were okay, but I was wrong.
> I was able to log in under postgres user, and the data seemed fine, but
> there were no GRANTS
> THEN I tried to GRANT all on table_name to user_name;
> but it kept coming up as nonexistent user.. It worked fine before the
> upgrade, and the user_name does indeed exist..
> What is the problem?

This is the first time this has come up. When we added pg_shadow in
6.3, we made pg_user a view. I don't thing pg_dumpall is going to
preserve users for such an upgrade, as it normally does.

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