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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Horace A. Vallas, Jr. <hav@hav.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: doc for pg_dump
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 19:35:22 -0400
Message-ID: <11972.999560122@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B8EB83C.4B5C5B5@hav.com>
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"Horace A. Vallas, Jr." <hav@hav.com> writes:
> Anyway - the error I get when using pg_dump (or pg_dumpall) is...

>    SET TRANSACTION command failed.  Explanation from backend: \
>    'ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "transaction"'.

It would seem that you are trying to use a 6.5-or-later pg_dump against
a pre-6.5 database server.  Use the version of pg_dump that came with
your server, instead.

			regards, tom lane



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