Re: Can't do pg_dump(all)

Please ignore the syntax in my example. It doesn't work with any combination,
right or wrong....




bangh <banghe@baileylink.net> on 02/11/2001 12:30:21 PM

To:   Larry Bottorff/Harvey@Harvey
cc:

Subject:  Re: [ADMIN] Can't do pg_dump(all)



I think you should enter:

pg_dump db_name > afile.out

not this: pg_dump > afile.out

--
Banghe


lbottorff@harveycounty.com wrote:

> I've had this problem for a while now in different forms: Basically, I can't
get
> any of the utilities to recognize anything. I just tried %pg_dump > afile.out
> and got this error message:
>
> psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: No such file or directory
>         Is the postmaster running at 'localhost' and accepting connections on
> Unix port 5432?
>
> I'm running cygwin on NT 4.0 and pg 7.0.3. I've tried any combination of
things
> in the pg_hba.conf file. Any ideas?
>
> LB
>
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