Re: calling pg_dump from perl

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> COMMAND: E:\PostgreSQL\8.4SS\bin/pg_dump.exe -f
> //nas-tb/DBBackups/PostgresDBBackup_TB-WS_misdwh_20110609151147.bak -F p
> --clean -U postgres -h localhost misdwh
...
> The interesting thing is, that it asks for a password for a database
> named "TB". Only god knows where that comes from! The name of my
> database is 'misdwh' and as can be seen on the command is passed as last
> parameter.

I would guess that TB is coming from the underscore in the filename.
Try quoting the entire argument to -f like so:

E:\PostgreSQL\8.4SS\bin/pg_dump.exe
-f "//nas-tb/DBBackups/PostgresDBBackup_TB-WS_misdwh_20110609151147.bak"
-F p --clean -U postgres -h localhost misdwh

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