Re: Can't make backup - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Erik Jones
Subject Re: Can't make backup
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Msg-id 9AB37274-7A73-4786-8C96-E5A758C6DBFC@myemma.com
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In response to Re: Can't make backup  (Sebastián Baioni <sebaioni-postgresql@yahoo.com.ar>)
List pgsql-general
On Jan 3, 2008, at 5:59 AM, Sebastián Baioni wrote:

> I don't have any table called pg_locks in pg_catalog.
> We let running pg_dump 8.2.5 at 1:30 AM after an automatic reboot
> of the PostgreSQL service and it didn't finish. When I came to the
> office at 9:00 there were a lot of locks, but all of them were from
> the pg_dump conection.

The pg_locks view most certainly exists.  Here's the list of all of
the system catalog tables and view:  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/
8.2/interactive/catalogs.html.  If you haven't looked at pg_locks how
do you know "there were a lot of locks"?

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