Thread: pg_dump problem

pg_dump problem

From

"Bob Nix"

Date:

23 July 2003, 03:53:55

I am trying to get pg_dump to work. I suspect that I am doing something wrong - Here's my command, and the resulting message.

"postgres" owns the database and the tables; all tables were created under "postgres".
"postgres" has no password.

The database is named "demo".

=== my command ====
$ pg_dump -U postgres demo > demo.dump

=== resulting message ===
pg_dump: [archiver (db)] connection to database "demo" failed: FATAL: IDENT authentication failed for user "postgres"

Bob Nix, Technical Analyst
IntraNexus, Inc.
bnix@intranexus.com
336-282-4415 Fax: 509-355-2669

Re: pg_dump problem

From

Paul Thomas

Date:

23 July 2003, 09:07:54

On 22/07/2003 16:30 Bob Nix wrote:
> I am trying to get pg_dump to work.  I suspect that I am doing something
> wrong - Here's my command, and the resulting message.
>
> "postgres" owns the database and the tables; all tables were created
> under "postgres".
> "postgres" has no password.
>
> The database is named "demo".
>
> === my command ====
> $ pg_dump -U postgres demo > demo.dump
>
> === resulting message ===
> pg_dump: [archiver (db)] connection to database "demo" failed: FATAL:
> IDENT authentication failed for user "postgres"

su to postgres from root should work but can be a PITA. I always create a
super user for a standard unix user (i.e. me on my development box) and
use that to create/own the databases. So the only time I actually need to
su postgres is during installation/setup.

HTH

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