Hello, first excuse my English U cant do a backup whit a Client minor version than the server U must have same version to do the backup, so U need upgrade your client (pg_dump 8.4.13) to at least 9.2.4
See U El 25/09/2013 15:55, Thara Vadakkeveedu escribió: > > Hi > I wanted to take a backup of my database. > > pg_dump throws a server mismatch version error > > # cd backups > # su - postgres > -bash-4.1$ pg_dump mydb > mydbfile > pg_dump: server version: 9.2.4; pg_dump version: 8.4.13 > pg_dump: aborting because of server version mismatch > > This is a fresh install of postgresql on a red hat linux server that > did not have any previous database installed on it . I installed > postgresql 9.2 from an rpm (pgdg-redhat92-9.2-7.noarch.rpm ) using yum > install. > > Why am I seeing this error? > How can I take a backup of my database? There are two tables that have > 20,000+ rows in it, that I want to backup and restore when needed. > > thanks > thara. >
