> Error return is that it is not able to find the attribute "any_column_name" in the table. This maybe obvious but have you looked at the table layout to see if the column exists. You may have a problem with spaces in the name or upper case letters in the name. In either case you must quote the name (table or column). Un quoted names are converted to all lower case. In psql do: \d tablename or from the shell do: pg_dump -s -t tablename