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From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: JTyrrell <jtyrrell_@hotmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: pg_dump problems
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:01:33 +0000
Message-ID: <459BFD8D.4030100@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8138723.post@talk.nabble.com>
References: <8138723.post@talk.nabble.com>

JTyrrell wrote:
> 
> pg_dump -a -d testrig > testrig.data
> 
> on a machine running postgresql 7.4.13 with database testirg i have no
> problem.
> 
> Then, I want to do the same but on a different machine running postgresql
> 7.4.6 with database root. So...
> 
> pg_dump -a -d root > root.data
> 
> For some reason this doesnt work! The command is running without error, but
> the file root.data is always empty. The database does exist and all the data
> is there, and I can run psql and do everything I normally do. I've tried
> pg_dump with other databases and still get an empty file.

Should work just fine.
1. Does "pg_dump -s" work?
2. Does the user you run this as have permission to dump data from "root"?

-- 
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd

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