On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 23:44:44 -0400,
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The thing that makes this slightly painful is that we can't tell what
version we are dumping *from* until we've connected, and so we cannot
automagically do the right thing here. I don't really see any other
way to
Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But after falling back to template1, a version check could be made and
if running 8.1 or higher an error message could be displayed.
Once we're connected to template1, we might as well just use it ...
regards, tom lane
Tom Lane wrote:
Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But after falling back to template1, a version check could be made and
if running 8.1 or higher an error message could be displayed.
Once we're connected to template1, we might as well just use it ...
Agreed. In any
I can't seem to dump old db's:
-bash-2.05b$ pg_dumpall -s -h database-dev dump.sql
Password:
pg_dumpall: could not connect to database postgres: FATAL: database
postgres does not exist
Seems that it is expecting the new 'postgres' database to exist on old
installations?
Chris
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Seems that it is expecting the new 'postgres' database to exist on old
installations?
Ooops :-( Seems like maybe we want it to try postgres and then fall
back to trying template1?
regards, tom lane
Seems that it is expecting the new 'postgres' database to exist on old
installations?
Ooops :-( Seems like maybe we want it to try postgres and then fall
back to trying template1?
Actually, also ONLY assume postgres is a special database if the backend
is 8.1 or higher. We don't want to
Seems that it is expecting the new 'postgres' database to exist on old
installations?
Ooops :-( Seems like maybe we want it to try postgres and then fall
back to trying template1?
No idea :) I haven't followed the new postgres database changes
particularly well...
Chris
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ooops :-( Seems like maybe we want it to try postgres and then fall
back to trying template1?
Actually, also ONLY assume postgres is a special database if the backend
is 8.1 or higher. We don't want to mess with poor people who have
