Re: pg_restore but for full user and roles, etc

pg_dumpall has "--roles-only" and "--no-role-passwords" options (in at least PG 14).

I'm 99.9% sure that "--no-role-passwords" was added specifically because of AWS RDS security policy.

On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 1:19 PM Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@gmail.com> wrote:

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.oliver@gmail.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@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 12:43 PM Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@gmail.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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