On Mon, 08 May 2006 15:47:13 -0600
Blair Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
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Blair,

<UNTESTED>
How about setting up a seperate schema (private), adding your
customer's database to it (leaving it in public) and then backing up
private.customerdb?
</UNTESTED>

John Purser

-- 
You need more time; and you probably always will.

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