Getting postmaster: StreamConnection: accept: The connection was aborted

Jeff Lu wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to perform a pg_dump from within a C program and I'm getting

postmaster: StreamConnection: accept: The connection was aborted

I've tried two different ways:

1) system("./pg_dump --file=database.dat database");

AND

2) system("./dbbackup.bat");

Where dbbackup.bat consists of

pg_dump --file=database.dat database

Both ways have the same error.

However, it works fine with run dbbackup.bat from a command line.

Please help

Thanks

-Jeff

From what you're describing, it sounds like the classic "missing
environmental variables" problem. If it works on the command line but
not from within a program (or from cron), then you're just missing 1 or
more env-vars, maybe PGPASSWORD? You should be able to track it down
from there. :-)

HTH,
Kevin