I have fixed this bug in the 6.5 beta release. The fix was to just
modify pg_dump to look for a leading "group ". There is no simpler way.
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> POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE
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> Your name : Bernhard Weisshuhn
> Your email address : bkw@weisshuhn.de
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> Category : runtime: front-end
> Severity : serious
>
> Summary: Correction: pg_dump sets quotes wrong when dumping groups-acls.
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> System Configuration
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> Operating System : Linux 2.0.36 ELF
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> PostgreSQL version : 6.4.2
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> Compiler used : gcc 2.7.2.3
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> Hardware:
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> Redhat 5.2, custom-built postgresql (no RPM)
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> Versions of other tools:
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> n/a
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> Problem Description:
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> Aaaargh! Sorry, I forgot to clean up my example, so it must
> have looked quite incomprehendable. Here it is again, with the right groupname:
>
> When executing
> % pg_dump -z somedatabase
> and a database contains acl-permissions like
> => "GRANT ALL on sometable to group somegroup"
> pg_dump incorrectly generates the line:
> GRANT ALL on "sometable" to "group somegroup";
> instead of
> GRANT ALL on "sometable" to group "somegroup";
>
> Note the quotes.
>
> The incorrect output generates errors when restoring
> databases from the dump and fails to set the correct
> permissions.
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> Test Case:
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> createdb grouptestdb;
> psql grouptestdb -c "insert into pg_group (groname,grosysid,grolist) VALUES ('testgroup',1000,'{500}');"
> psql grouptestdb -c "create table dummy (foobar int4);"
> psql grouptestdb -c "grant ALL on dummy to group testgroup;"
> pg_dump -z -s -t dummy grouptestdb
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> Solution:
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> Obviously, pg_dump does not seem to know about groups at all,
> so it treats "group testgroup" as a user.
> Sorry, this one is too hard for me to fix the right way,
> maybe we could just check, if the userstring begins with
> 'group ' and alter the quotes accordingly, but this does
> not look like a clean solution to me.
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