On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 09:44 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Christopher Kings-Lynne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Hmmmm...actually.  It's because I have a user called 'support' and a 
> > group called 'support'.
> > 
> > Seems like it needs a fix...
> 
> Have you got a suggestion on just how to fix it...?  Debian's
> pg_upgradecluster bails out with an error when it discovers this
> situation but I don't think it'd be sensible for pg_dump to do that...
> 


How about an option to map groups whose names conflict with user names
using a prefix mechanism? 

e.g. --map-conflicting-groups=gr_

Then in Christopher's example his support group would become the role
gr_support.

Just a thought.

cheers

andrew


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