Re: pg_dump error

86 this request.  I've found my problem.  It seems that Dell had an old
version (7.2.2) of PostgreSQL installed.  It was using pg_dump from that
version instead of the new version.

The database dump worked great with the new version.

Dave

David C. Brown wrote:

> I'm receiving an error from pg_dumpall while trying to backup my
> database.  To explain, this database used to be 7.2.1 but we have
> upgraded the server and I just used pg_dumpall and then reloaded that
> data into the new system which runs on 7.3.3  The problem is I get an
> error when using pg_dumpall/pg_dump.
>
> Here are the version info and the error messages.
>
> Old database.
>
>                           version
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on i586-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.96
> (1 row)
>
>
> New database.
>
>
> version
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> PostgreSQL 7.3.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.2
> 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)
> (1 row)
>
>
> Error message when using pg_dump.  I get the same message with
> pg_dumpall.
>
> pg_dump -i -U postgres whse > db.out
> Password:
> pg_dump: server version: PostgreSQL 7.3.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu,
> compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7);
> pg_dump version: 7.2.2
> pg_dump: proceeding despite version mismatch
> pg_dump: query to obtain list of data types failed: ERROR:  Attribute
> "typprtlen" not found
>
> It says that it's using pg_dump version 7.2.2.  I'm not sure if that
> is the version that comes with 7.3.3, but PostgreSQL was compile fresh
> from source on the new machine.  Where it got this version of
> pg_dump/pg_dumpall I'm unclear of.
>
>
> If anyone has any ideas that could help me out it would be greatly
> appreciated.  I tried searching the pgsql-admin archives, but was
> unable to find related items.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@postgresql.org
>