Re: [NOVICE] pg_dump problem

Just the ticket!! I renamed the old "pg_dump" command in /usr/bin and
created a symbolic link to the "pg_dump" command in /usr/local/pgsql/bin
and, voila!, life is good!

Thanks, Tom!

Tom Lane wrote:

> John Burski <jburski(at)autopartshq(dot)com> writes:
> > When I issue the "pg_dump jcon" (jcon being the database name, of
> > course) I receive the following error message:
>
> > getInherits(): SELECT failed
>
> It might be time to put this in the FAQ ;-). You're probably trying
> to run a 6.5 (or earlier?) pg_dump against a 7.0 database. The older
> pg_dump doesn't do any version checking, and the first it realizes
> it's got trouble is when it hits incompatibilities in the system
> table layout.
>
> Check your PATH to see where pg_dump is coming from...
>
> regards, tom lane

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