Re: pg_dump silently fails

Tom Lane wrote:
> Brandon Keepers <brandon@opensoul.org> writes:
> > I've been wresting with this problem since 8.0.1 and am able to
> > duplicate it on 6 different installations.  If I compile postgres from
> > source, everything works fine.  If I install the RHEL 4 ES RPM, pg_dump
> > silently fails.
>
> Is SELinux in enforcement mode, and if so does turning it off change
> things?

Should we check for a buggy SELinux and report a meaningful error
message on failure?

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