"Abraham Grief" <abraham.grief@gmail.com> writes:
> I ran pg_dumpall on Windows Vista with the -f option. However, I wasn't
> running the command as an administrator, and I specified a path that I
> wasn't allowed to write to. The dump completed with no errors, and no file
> was created.
> Instead, I should have received an error message as soon as I ran the
> command that informed me that the file I specified could not be opened for
> writing.
Works for me ...
$ pg_dumpall -f /no/such/file
pg_dumpall: could not open the output file "/no/such/file": No such file or directory
$ pg_dumpall -f /usr/dumpfile
pg_dumpall: could not open the output file "/usr/dumpfile": Permission denied
Maybe you need to use a real operating system. The pg_dumpall code is
definitely testing for open failures, so the only way this doesn't
work is if there's a system-level problem.
regards, tom lane