Re: Upgrading a PostgreSQL Cluster Documentation

On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 01:26:26PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/upgrading.html
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> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/upgrading.html
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> It would be helpful to make a note for Linux users that you have login
> interactively as the postgres user ie. "sudo -u postgres -i" before running
> such commands as "pg_dumpall -p 5432 | psql -d postgres -p 5433". Otherwise
> you'll receive the template1 error about the user.

Uh, you can do:

pg_dumpall -U postgres -p 5432

which is simpler. The point is that the database user should be
postgres, not necessarily the operating system user, though that also
works.

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