On Wednesday, March 07, 2012 7:19:51 am Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 09:38 -0500, Gary Chambers wrote: > > Martin, > > > > > 6) The next scheduled backup using pg_dumpall failed immediately > > > because it couldn't find 'template1'. > > > > The template1 database is the default database to which pg_dumpall > > attempts to connect. If you use the -l or --database option, you can > > change that and pg_dumpall will resume functioning as you expect. > > I've just logged in under postgres and run '\l' - and the databases > postgres, template0 and template1 are still there: > > postgres=# \l > List of databases > Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access > privileges > -----------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+------------- > ---------- postgres | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | > template0 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | > =c/postgres + > > postgres=CTc/postgres > template1 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | > postgres=CTc/postgres+ > > =c/postgres > > So, is this a privilege issue? I don't understand the content of that > somewhat cryptic 'privilege' column. Is it set how you'd expect?
The privilege code can be found below, look towards bottom of page: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/sql-grant.html The privileges look alright, same as mine. So what user are you trying to restore the pg_dumpall data as? What is the exact error message you get? > > Marti: > ====== > I got this output: > > postgres=# SELECT datname FROM pg_database WHERE datistemplate; > datname > ----------- > template0 > template1 > (2 rows) > > so it doesn't look like its been renamed. > > > Martin -- Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
