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=?UTF-8?Q?Filip_Rembia=C5=82kowski?= <filip.rembialkowski@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hmm.  A look at the code in pg_dumpall suggests that the problem is
>> unmatched entries in pg_auth_members, ie this query:
>> 
>> SELECT ur.rolname AS roleid
>> FROM pg_auth_members a LEFT JOIN pg_authid ur on ur.oid = a.roleid
>> 
>> is returning some null results.

> Yes that is the case:

Ah-ha.  How about the member and grantor OIDs in those rows --- do
they correspond to still-existing roles?  (I believe "10" would be
the bootstrap superuser, so that should certainly still exist, but
those other numbers are for user-made roles.)

> Could it be (theoretically) caused by human-made insertions into
> pg_auth_members?

Well, perhaps ... are you in the habit of hacking that catalog directly?
Aside from the possibility of inserting a just-plain-wrong OID, there's
the possibility of inserting a valid row but forgetting to add a
pg_shdepend entry that would protect the row against the underlying
role being dropped.

> Maybe you remember some bug which could have caused this in the past?

Doesn't ring a bell offhand.

			regards, tom lane

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