Hi, I have had this problem for a while, and have not been able to find anything in the archives or on search engines: If I want to back up a client's database on our shared web server, I would type: pg_dump <database_name> Since we are running a shared server, and since crappy (only because of this problem) off the shelf database open source software such as oscommerce, or phpBB2 grants access to public rather than the web user "www" or "nobody", when I do a pg_dump for a database, I get all the databases on the system that grant to PUBLIC being dumped with with database that I want. To restore, I need to go in and prune out all the extra junk that was granted to PUBLIC by other users in other databases - very time consuming. How can I use pg_dump to get JUST the database in th argument, and not other tables and databases that have granted to PUBLIC? Altering my client's software to grant to "nobody" is not practical. Thanks in advance, Blair.