creating a dump

Started by Hegyvari Krisztianalmost 24 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Hegyvari Krisztian
Hegyvari.Krisztian@ardents.hu

Hello,

I try to dump my databases using pg_dumpall or pg_dump and I get the following error:

\connect bic postgres
getAggregates(): SELECT failed. Explanation from backend: 'ERROR: Attribute 'aggtransfn1' not found
'.
pg_dump failed on bic, exiting

I tried to fiddle around with the privileges, granted public access to the database to no avail.

Any clues why this happens?

BTW, I would like a cron job to periodically dump out the data in a restorable form.

Best Regards,

Hegyvari Krisztian

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Hegyvari Krisztian (#1)
Re: creating a dump

"Hegyvari Krisztian" <Hegyvari.Krisztian@ardents.hu> writes:

I try to dump my databases using pg_dumpall or pg_dump and I get the following error:

\connect bic postgres
getAggregates(): SELECT failed. Explanation from backend: 'ERROR: Attribute 'aggtransfn1' not found
'.

I think you are trying to use a 7.0 or older pg_dump against a 7.1 or
newer database. Or maybe it was 7.2 where we changed the layout of
pg_aggregate. Anyway, this is a version skew problem.

(Newer versions of pg_dump do complain if the server version isn't one
they recognize, btw. But you are invoking an old one :-()

regards, tom lane