Re: strange message from pg_dumpall - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: strange message from pg_dumpall
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Msg-id 14337.1193837701@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to strange message from pg_dumpall  (Joao Miguel Ferreira <joao.mc.ferreira@criticalsoftware.com>)
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Joao Miguel Ferreira <joao.mc.ferreira@criticalsoftware.com> writes:
> This is what I do:
> system("su postgres -c \"pg_dumpall --clean > some_file\"");

This is going to try to find pg_dumpall in whatever PATH is currently
active within the script --- maybe there's something bogus about that
path?  Personally I'd use "su - postgres".

            regards, tom lane

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