Re: restoring under a different owner?

On Feb 19, 2006, at 3:25 PM, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:

> I want to use pg_dump to backup an entire Postgres database,
> including BLOB
> data.  Then I want to restore it on a different machine with a
> different db
> owner and all the tables restored under that owner.  I want the
> restore to
> create the db and all the tables.
>
> What are the commands to do this?


See the --no-owner option with pg_restore (also available with pg_dump).

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/app-pgrestore.html



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