Re: 2 versions running & using pg_dumpall - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 2 versions running & using pg_dumpall
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Msg-id 26064.1193345857@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: 2 versions running & using pg_dumpall  (Ralph Smith <smithrn@u.washington.edu>)
Responses Re: 2 versions running & using pg_dumpall  (Ralph Smith <smithrn@u.washington.edu>)
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Ralph Smith <smithrn@u.washington.edu> writes:
> On Oct 25, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Ummm ... those are the column headings for 8.2 pg_database, not 7.4.
>> You're looking at the wrong postmaster.

> postgres@smithrn-ltb1:/usr/lib/postgresql/7.4/bin$ ./psql
> Welcome to psql 7.4.13, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

> Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
>         \h for help with SQL commands
>         \? for help on internal slash commands
>         \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
>         \q to quit

> postgres=# select * from pg_database ;
>    datname  | datdba | encoding | datistemplate | datallowconn |
> datconnlimit | datlastsysoid | datfrozenxid | dattablespace |
> datconfig |               datacl

Still the wrong column headings :-(.  What you have above is a 7.4 psql
connecting to an 8.2 postmaster, no doubt because the default port
number wired into it is the 8.2 installation's not the 7.4 one's.
You'll need to explicitly give a -p switch to psql to connect to the
correct postmaster.

            regards, tom lane

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