dangling permission on tables after drop user.
Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com>
From: Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-09-29T20:24:11Z
Lists: pgsql-general
I have a database which started on Pg 7.1, moved to 7.2 via pg_dump/restore, and ultimately to Pg 7.4 likewise. While it was in 7.2, I added one user and granted access to various tables. After the 7.4 migration, that user was no longer needed, so was removed via "dropuser" command line tool. Now, when I pg_dump that db using the version 7.4.5 tools, I cannot restore because there are still grants in there for this phantom user: REVOKE ALL ON TABLE partners FROM PUBLIC; GRANT INSERT,SELECT,UPDATE,DELETE ON TABLE partners TO www; GRANT ALL ON TABLE partners TO "102"; there is no user with ID 102 in the pg_user view. pg_restore complains about the missing user "102". And no, the user was not "102" it was the name of a (former) employee. My questions are: 1) did I do something wrong in dropping that user? 2) how do I fix this in my system tables? The gross hack is to pg_restore to an ascii file and delete those GRANT lines, but the compressed dump is over 2Gb for this database. Vivek Khera, Ph.D. +1-301-869-4449 x806