Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2013-11-22 13:07:29 -0800, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>> I'm not sure I understand.� Could you give an example of what
>> you're concerned about?
> pg_dumpall first spits out global data (users, databases, tablespaces)
> and then invokes pg_dump for every single database. So I'd very strongly
> suspect that your patch will issue the CREATE ROLE etc. calls without
> unsetting default_transaction_readonly.
Yeah, that's what I was wondering about. I don't think pg_dumpall -g
invokes pg_dump at all, so how could that case work? Maybe it would
only fail if the postgres database is read-only, though. Try it with
default-read-only set in postgresql.conf instead of as a database
property.
regards, tom lane