Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes:
> > We could modify pg_dump to emit RESET AUTHORIZATION in --binary-upgrade
> > mode.  I am unclear if that might cause some other problems though.
> 
> I finally figured out what was really bugging me about that proposal:
> it's a one-shot hack for fixing one problem that could arise from
> non-default ALTER DATABASE/ALTER ROLE settings.  Who's to say there
> are not other such issues, either now or in the future?
> 
> It occurs to me that a more principled way to deal with this class of
> problems would be to delay restoring ALTER DATABASE/ALTER ROLE
> settings until after everything else is done.  Not sure what the
> implementation consequences of that would be.  Ideally we'd make
> pg_dumpall output work that way in general, not just for pg_upgrade.

Yep, it feels like a one-off that no one else will ever hit, and there
are certainly other ALTER DATABASE SET commands that could also obstruct
a restore.

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