Re: pg_restore but for full user and roles, etc

Ah, sorry for the multiple responses, but it doesn't seem like pg_dumpall
is permitted in AWS RDS. If anyone has any other clever ways of getting to
this info, would appreciate any ideas.

On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 10:15 AM Wells Oliver <wells(dot)oliver(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Thanks. Yeah, I was basically looking for the role/user only version of
> pg_dumpall -g, where I'd then handle specific DB restore on its own. Your
> right thought, I can copy out what I care about from the output.
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 10:06 AM Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 12:43 PM Wells Oliver <wells(dot)oliver(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am doing a pg_restore of a database, which is nothing difficult, but I
>>> also am creating a new server first, and rather than painstakingly making
>>> sure I create all users and roles etc prior to pg_restore (so we can have
>>> the same perms), is there some obvious way of doing this I'm unawares of?
>>>
>>
>> Running "pg_dumpall -g > source_roles.sql" and then scanning it for the
>> relevant entries doesn't seem too onerous. It's a lot easier than the
>> conceptually similar -- but much trickier -- process you need to go through
>> when migrating SQL Server databases.
>>
>>
>
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