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Re: 9.0: plpgsql eror when restoring a database as a non superuser

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On Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:33:01 am stefan wrote:

> 
> Thank you, Adrian for your response.
> 
> I have checked your suggestion: in pg_pltemplate, tmpldbacreate is set
> to true. As you state above, this allows a non superuser to create the
> language in any database that does not yet has that language registered.
> 
> However, due to the fact that in 9.0, the language is in template1 and
> owned by postgres, a non superuser database owner will not have the
> right to create or replace this language in any newly created database
> owned by himself.

I misunderstood the intent of the above. I thought the language would acquire 
the ownership of the database creator.  Some testing (should have done first) 
proved me wrong.

> 
> Therefore the only solution I see is to drop plpgsql from template1, or
> writing a wrapper script that exploits the -l and -L options of pg_restore.

Yes. Though I could see an option to create a template database without plpgsql 
in it for use by non-superuser users and leave template1 as is.

> 
> Cheers,
> Stefan.

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