Re: dangling permission on tables after drop user.

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: Vivek Khera <khera(at)kcilink(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: dangling permission on tables after drop user.
Date: 2004-09-29 21:35:58
Message-ID: 20040929213558.GA6199@dcc.uchile.cl
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On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 05:07:38PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
>
> On Sep 29, 2004, at 4:55 PM, Richard Huxton wrote:
>
> >Vivek Khera wrote:
> >>there is no user with ID 102 in the pg_user view. pg_restore
> >>complains about the missing user "102". And no, the user was not
> >>"102" it was the name of a (former) employee.
> >
> >>The gross hack is to pg_restore to an ascii file and delete those
> >>GRANT lines, but the compressed dump is over 2Gb for this database.
> >
> >Am I missing something Vivek, or should the gross hack be "creating a
> >user with id=102" ?
>
> And how exactly does one accomplish this? pg_users is a view so you
> can't insert into it.

CREATE USER ... WITH SYSID 102;

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
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