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Created October 19, 2012 01:42
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Postgresql - Changing ownership on all tables
#!/bin/bash
usage()
{
cat << EOF
usage: $0 options
This script set ownership for all table, sequence and views for a given database
Credit: Based on http://stackoverflow.com/a/2686185/305019 by Alex Soto
OPTIONS:
-h Show this message
-d Database name
-U Postgres user to run this script as
-o Owner
EOF
}
DB_NAME=
NEW_OWNER=
PG_USER=
while getopts "h:d:o:U:" OPTION
do
case $OPTION in
h)
usage
exit 1
;;
d)
DB_NAME=$OPTARG
;;
o)
NEW_OWNER=$OPTARG
;;
U)
PG_USER=$OPTARG
;;
esac
done
echo "User $PG_USER"
if [[ -z $DB_NAME ]] || [[ -z $NEW_OWNER ]]
then
usage
exit 1
fi
for tbl in `psql -U${PG_USER} -qAt -c "select tablename from pg_tables where schemaname = 'public';" ${DB_NAME}` \
`psql -U${PG_USER} -qAt -c "select sequence_name from information_schema.sequences where sequence_schema = 'public';" ${DB_NAME}` \
`psql -U${PG_USER} -qAt -c "select table_name from information_schema.views where table_schema = 'public';" ${DB_NAME}` ;
do
psql -U${PG_USER} -c "alter table \"$tbl\" owner to ${NEW_OWNER}" ${DB_NAME} ;
done
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