"Ragnar Garli" <ragnar_garli@hotmail.com> writes:
>> Use a more recent pg_dump. 7.3.1's pg_dump should be able to talk to
>> your 7.1.3 server and extract the data without problems.
> Sorry, but pg_dump from 7.3.1 fails too. The problem is the errormessage it
> gets from the backend when pg_dump scans throug the pg_description table
> using the oids for the tables in the database.
> Just look at the d2 debug output from the postmaster:
> DEBUG: StartTransactionCommand
> DEBUG: query: SELECT description FROM pg_description WHERE objoid =
> 2325712020
This is not 7.3.1 pg_dump: you can look at the sources for yourself.
Against a 7.1 server it will do
appendPQExpBuffer(query, "SELECT description FROM pg_description WHERE objoid = '%s'::oid", oid);
I suggest double-checking your PATH. You must be invoking the wrong
pg_dump.
regards, tom lane