Обсуждение: Changing a database owner on postgres 7.3

Hi all,
 
I'm trying to tweak a schema creation script that works on postgres 8.x so that it will run on postgres 7.3.
 
I've run into trouble attempting to change the owner of a particular database. The offending line is -
 
ALTER DATABASE test OWNER TO epg;

As I say, this works fine on postgres 8 but fails with the message "ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "OWNER" at character 87" on postgres 7.3."
 
Can someone suggest an alternative way of changing the owner of a database for 7.3?
 
Cheers,
Richard.

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Hi,

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 12:33 +0000, Richard George wrote:
> I've run into trouble attempting to change the owner of a particular
> database. The offending line is -
>
> ALTER DATABASE test OWNER TO epg;

There is no way to change ownership of a database with ALTER DATABASE in
7.3.X .

> Can someone suggest an alternative way of changing the owner of a
> database for 7.3?

AFAIR there is no quick-and-easy way to do that for 7.3. I'd create a
new database with a new username, and I'd use the old database as the
template:

CREATE DATABASE newdb WITH OWNER newuser TEMPLATE olddb;

could work for you.

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thanks for this- worked a treat!

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> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Changing a database owner on postgres 7.3
> From: devrim@commandprompt.com
> To: rcgeorge23@hotmail.com
> CC: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:26:00 +0300
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 12:33 +0000, Richard George wrote:
> > I've run into trouble attempting to change the owner of a particular
> > database. The offending line is -
> >  
> > ALTER DATABASE test OWNER TO epg;
>
> There is no way to change ownership of a database with ALTER DATABASE in
> 7.3.X . 
>
> > Can someone suggest an alternative way of changing the owner of a
> > database for 7.3? 
>
> AFAIR there is no quick-and-easy way to do that for 7.3. I'd create a
> new database with a new username, and I'd use the old database as the
> template:
>
> CREATE DATABASE newdb WITH OWNER newuser TEMPLATE olddb;
>
> could work for you.
>
> Regards,
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devrim@commandprompt.com (Devrim GUNDUZ) writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 12:33 +0000, Richard George wrote:
>> I've run into trouble attempting to change the owner of a particular
>> database. The offending line is -
>>
>> ALTER DATABASE test OWNER TO epg;
>
> There is no way to change ownership of a database with ALTER DATABASE in
> 7.3.X .
>
>> Can someone suggest an alternative way of changing the owner of a
>> database for 7.3?
>
> AFAIR there is no quick-and-easy way to do that for 7.3. I'd create a
> new database with a new username, and I'd use the old database as the
> template:
>
> CREATE DATABASE newdb WITH OWNER newuser TEMPLATE olddb;
>
> could work for you.

I expect you could do the following:

   update pg_database set datdba = (select usesysid from pg_shadow
   where usename = 'epg') where datname = 'test';

Behind the scenes, that's probably what "ALTER DATABASE test OWNER TO
epg;" actually does.
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