I have a database that was built under a Mandrake 7.2 postgres installation. I am now running Debian (woody) on that machine, with postgresql 7.2.1.
I still have the data directory from the old installation, so I started a postmaster on a non-standard port, with a -D pointing to that directory, and as the postgres user did: pg_dumpall -p 8050 >/tmp/db.sql I then tried to restore (again as the postgres user), as documented in the pg_dumpall man page: psql -f /tmp/db.sql template1 It does a few things, and then says: psql:/tmp/db.sql:16: \connect: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed for user "bostonre" I would have thought the postgres user would be able to restore stuff for any user. What am I doing wrong? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster