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  1. General Bug Report: pg_dump sets quotes wrong when dumping groups-acls.

    Unprivileged user <nobody> — 1999-05-03T11:18:13Z

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Your name               : Bernhard Weisshuhn
Your email address      : bkw@weisshuhn.de

Category                : runtime: front-end
Severity                : serious

Summary: pg_dump sets quotes wrong when dumping groups-acls.

System Configuration
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  Operating System   : Linux 2.0.36 ELF

  PostgreSQL version : 6.4.2

  Compiler used      : gcc 2.7.2.3

Hardware:
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Redhat 5.2, custom-built postgresql (no RPM)

Versions of other tools:
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n/a

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Problem Description:
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When executing
% pg_dump -z somedatabase
and a database contains acl-permissions like
=> "GRANT ALL on sometable to group somegroup"
pg_dump incorrectly generates the line:
  GRANT ALL on "sometable" to "group somegroup";
instead of
  GRANT ALL on "sometable" to group "bosses";

The incorrect output generates errors when restoring
databases from the dump and fails to set the correct
permissions.

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Test Case:
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createdb grouptestdb;
psql grouptestdb -c "insert into pg_group (groname,grosysid,grolist) VALUES ('testgroup',1000,'{500}');"
psql grouptestdb -c "create table dummy (foobar int4);"
psql grouptestdb -c "grant ALL on dummy to group testgroup;"
pg_dump -z -s -t dummy grouptestdb



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Solution:
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Obviously, pg_dump does not seem to know about groups at all,
so it treats "group testgroup" as a user.
Sorry, this one is too hard for me to fix the right way, 
maybe we could just check, if the userstring begins with 
'group ' and alter the quotes accordingly, but this does
not look like a clean solution to me.

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