On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 08:54:20AM -0500, Rick Schumeyer wrote: > To date I have always used pg on a system where I had pg superuser status. > I'm trying to move a database from such a system to one where I am just > a user, and I'm having a couple of problems. > > The first is, the output of pg_dump has a lot of lines like: > > ALTER FUNCTION some_function OWNER TO rick; > > The user 'rick' does not exist on the target system. I've looked at the > help for pg_dump...it looks like specifying "no-owner" will skip these > lines. Are there any side effects I need to be aware of? Yes; everything will be owned by whatever user loads the dump in. In this case, that's probably what you want. > The second problem is the statement: > > CREATE PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE plpgsql; > > Apparently I need to be a pg superuser to do this? Do I need to get the Yes. > db admin to run this statement before I load the database? What if, Yes. > during testing, I need to drop/create the database? Do I need the admin > to run something every time? Yes, unless he adds it to template1. -- Jim Nasby jim@xxxxxxxxx EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
