Re: [BUGS] BUG #14636: pg_dumpall -d - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: [BUGS] BUG #14636: pg_dumpall -d
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Msg-id 702d6861-97e7-1490-b0a1-89209d4114e1@aklaver.com
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In response to Re: [BUGS] BUG #14636: pg_dumpall -d  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
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On 04/30/2017 10:45 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 7:08 AM,  <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:
>> Pulled the nightly build of Postgres 10:
>>         2017-04-30 20:30:26
>> Testing dump/restore from a 9.6 instance to the 10 instance. Tried dumping
>> the globals using pg_dumpall and connected using:
>> aklaver@tito:~> /usr/local/pgsql10/bin/pg_dumpall -g -d postgres -U postgres
>> -p 5432 -f production_globals.sql
>> pg_dumpall: missing "=" after "postgres" in connection info string
>>
>> This not what I usually do and when I used -l it worked as expected. The bug
>> is that the docs say:
>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/app-pg-dumpall.html
>>
>> "-d connstr
>> --dbname=connstr
>>
>>     Specifies parameters used to connect to the server, as a connection
>> string. See Section 33.1.1 for more information.
>>
>>     The option is called --dbname for consistency with other client
>> applications, but because pg_dumpall needs to connect to many databases,
>> database name in the connection string will be ignored. Use -l option to
>> specify the name of the database used to dump global objects and to discover
>> what other databases should be dumped.
>> "
>>
>> Instead an error is raised.
>
> The documentation and the behavior look correct to me. You did not
> specify a correct connection string using -d, and just used a database
> name. If you want to have a database name ignored in the connection
> string defined by -d, you need to use "dbname=postgres".

Aah, I was not paying attention and did not realize that -d changed 
context. Thanks for clearing this up for me. Ignore the report.


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Adrian Klaver
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