"Thomas F. O'Connell" <tfo@sitening.com> wrote on 08/02/2006 02:04:35 PM:
> You'll need to specify the non-default port explicitly in your > pg_dump command in order to back up the postmaster running on 55432. > > E.g., pg_dump -p 55432 -U postgres -C -D -f /tmp/$(date+%F)owl.sql owl > > By default, the postgres command-line utilities attempt to connect > to 5432 (or $PGPORT or whatever is configured as the default port). > > In the meantime, you're still backing up the 7.3.4 postmaster with > that script. > > -- > Thomas F. O'Connell > Sitening, LLC
To confirm: what you're saying it that by specifying the port in my command the system knows which database to backup and which version of Postgresql to use.
