In Postgresql, after pg_dump the access privileges on the database itself are not restored

Question

This question was migrated from Stack Overflow because it can be answered on Database Administrators Stack Exchange. Migrated 5 years ago.

Suppose user foo owns a database gee, and user foo has granted user bar with all access privileges on database gee

gee=> \l
                              List of databases
   Name    |  Owner   | Encoding |   Collate   |    Ctype    |   Access privileges
-----------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------
 gee       | foo      | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =Tc/foo              +
           |          |          |             |             | foo=CTc/foo          +
           |          |          |             |             | bar=CTc/foo

We dump this database,

$ pg_dump -U foo -v -f gee.dump gee

In database gee user bar has created a schema. So because all of these users we restore database gee as user postgres (after user foo has created a database goo),

$ sudo -u postgres psql -d goo -f gee.dump

User bar does not have the access privileges on the database goo. But inside database goo every privilege is OK, for all users, on schemas and tables.

goo=> \l
                              List of databases
   Name    |  Owner   | Encoding |   Collate   |    Ctype    |   Access privileges
-----------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------
 goo       | foo      | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |

Why are the access privileges on the database itself not restored?

Answer 1

Why are the access privileges on the database itself not restored?

It's a bug, or a design oversight. Though the responder to that report doesn't think so.

pg_dumpall --globals-only doesn't dump rights on the database. Neither does pg_dump as part of the database dump.

So grants on databases only get included in a full pg_dumpall.

I'll make some noise about it by poking this thread.