Re: Backup error - Pls help

On Monday 22 September 2003 10:01, Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 2 versions of Postgres server 7.2 & 7.3.4 installed on Linux server
> 7.3. I have not started the Postgres Server 7.2 which is located at
> /var/library/pgsql.

RedHat 7.3 I guess you mean?

> I am running and using only 7.3.4 located at /usr/local/pgsql.
>
> After I login, I come to the /usr/local/pgsql/bin and then issued the
> following
>
>
> [usr1@Linuxsvr bin]$ pg_dump -h 192.168.2.51 -f /home/usr1/prod.sql prod
> pg_dump: server version: pg_dump.mo; pg_dump version: 7.2.1
> pg_dump: aborting because of version mismatch  (Use the -i option to
> proceed anyway.) [usr1@Linuxsvr bin]$ pg_dump -h 192.168.2.51 -i -f
> /home/usr1/prod.sql prod

What directory you are in has nothing to do with which copy of a program you 
will run. There is a utility called "which" to help you: "which pg_dump".
Almost certainly what you want to do is: /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump -h ...

You probably want to get a book on unix/linux and read up about the various 
search paths.
--  Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd