Re: Taking backup of login roles in postgresql 8.2

Arun,

You have to use pg_dumpall with the --globals setting like so:

pg_dumpall --globals > globals.sql

or pass it through gzip first:

pg_dumpall --globals | gzip > globals.sql.gz

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, arun wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm new to this forum. Can any one tell me how to take backup of login
> roles in postgresql.
> I know how to take database backup. It is giving me all the schemas in the
> selected database, but not creating the login roles required when restoring
> the database
>
> Thank you
>

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