| From: | "Andrew L(dot) Gould" <algould(at)datawok(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Greg" <gh(at)san(dot)rr(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Schema backup |
| Date: | 2003-10-03 15:48:58 |
| Message-ID: | 200310031048.58174.algould@datawok.com |
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On Tuesday 30 September 2003 09:15 pm, Greg wrote:
> I also have troubles with pg_dump. I have a database called 'shipping' and
> it has many tables(I populated them via a script). To dump the database I
> did these steps:
>
> su greg and then pg_dump > /tmp/greg.dmp. A file greg.dmp gets created but
> it has nothing in it(0 bytes). Could you advise what was wrong, please?
>
> Thanks in advance, Greg
>
You forgot to tell pg_dump the name of the database. Try:
pg_dump shipping > /tmp/greg.dmp
Or, for a gzipped backup:
pg_dump shipping | gzip -c > /tmp/greg.dmp.gz
Best of luck,
Andrew Gould
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