Kardos, Dr. Andreas writes:
> The pg_dumpall script is not compatible with 7.0 psql and createdb.
Darn me! I'll look into this. Some of the stuff in pg_dumpall can be
solved more elegantly by now.
> 1. pgsql -l delivers a different output (Owner instead of User ID).
> Therefore in the following command "usesysid" has to be replaced by
> "usename":
>
> POSTGRES_USER="`echo \" \
> select usename \
> from pg_shadow \
> where usesysid = $DBUSERID; \" | \
> psql -A -q -t template1`"
Huh? Doesn't it look like that now?
> 2. createdb -help in the following line tries to connect the host "elp".
>
> if createdb -help|grep encoding >/dev/null
> then
> echo "create database $DATABASE with encoding='`pg_encoding $ENCODING`';"
> else
> echo "create database $DATABASE;"
> fi
I'd be inclined to say that you can leave off the encoding phrase if the
encoding is 'SQL_ASCII' (or 0). That is always the case if you don't use
multibyte.
> 3. QNX4 only: The double quotes in
>
> POSTGRES_USER="`echo \" \
>
> etc. must not be escaped with a backslash.
Technically, it should just work without them (the backslash, that is).
Then again, I'm not the greatest portable shell programmer.
I'll see what I can do.
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