Which version of pg_dump did you use to dump the old database? The recommended procedure is to use the newer version of pg_dump (ie: pg_dump from 8.1.1) to dump the old database. It's possible that the newer version of pg_dump has facilities in place to deal with this. Those facilities would obviously be missing from older versions. On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:42:14AM +0000, ljb wrote: > I loaded a 7.4.x dump into a new 8.1.1 database and found out what happens > if you had the same name as both a user and a group. You can get users with > more rights than they had before. I guess it is too late, but perhaps a > mention in the release text would have been a good idea. Advise people to > rename any group which has the same name as a user. > > For example, if at 7.4.x I have: > Group: Is granted all rights to table: > test test_data > acct money_data > > Username: Member of group: And therefore gets all rights to table: > ljb test test_data > test acct money_data > > After loading the dump into 8.1.1, the test user and test group get merged > into a single role, so the test user gets granted all rights to the test_data > table. In addition, 'ljb' now effectively is a member of the 'acct' group > (via the test role), so is granted all rights to the money_data table. > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly > -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
