Re: trouble with pg_dumpall

Hi Jeff,

You cuaght me with a fine point.

> but I didn't see HOME being exported.

I have changed the script accordingly:

  #! /bin/bash

  PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/bin:/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/java/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/ant/bin:.
  PGHOME=/usr/local/pgsql
  HOME=/usr/local/pgsql
  PGUSER=postgres
  PGDATABASE=canon
  PGHOST=localhost
  PGPASSFILE=/usr/local/pgsql/.pgpass
  PGDATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/lib
  export PGUSER PGDATABASE PGHOST PGPASSFILE PGDATA LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  export PGHOME PATH HOME
  echo +++++++++
  echo PGUSER: $PGUSER
  echo PGDATABASE: $PGDATABASE
  echo PGHOST: $PGHOST
  echo PGPASSFILE: $PGPASSFILE
  echo PGDATA: $PGDATA
  echo HOME: $HOME
  echo PATH: $PATH

  filename=`date +%G%m%d.%w`.gz
  /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dumpall > $filename

And the result/my claim remains the same as before:

  +++++++++
  PGUSER: postgres
  PGDATABASE: canon
  PGHOST: localhost
  PGPASSFILE: /usr/local/pgsql/.pgpass
  PGDATA: /usr/local/pgsql/data
  HOME: /usr/local/pgsql
  PATH: /usr/local/pgsql/bin:/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/java/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/ant/bin:.
  Password:
  pg_dumpall: could not connect to database "template1": fe_sendauth: no password supplied

I see just one more option.  Namely, to change the
postgres user entry for pg_hba.conf to "trust" for
a short period as pg_dumpall starts and then put it
back to the way normally is (md5).  I would rather
not do that and get .pgpass or PGPASSFILE to work
for me.

Regards,

Tena Sakai
tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu




-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Frost [mailto:jeff@frostconsultingllc.com]
Sent: Wed 2/27/2008 7:41 PM
To: Tena Sakai
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] trouble with pg_dumpall

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Tena Sakai wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
>
>> I bet the $HOME environment variable isn't
>> being set by your cron implementation.
>> Try putting an echo $HOME in your script and
>> see if it's defined.
>
> I did.  Here's the result:
>
>  +++++++++
>  PGUSER: postgres
>  PGDATABASE: canon
>  PGHOST: localhost
>  PGPASSFILE: /usr/local/pgsql/.pgpass
>  PGDATA: /usr/local/pgsql/data
>  +++++++++
>  HOME: /usr/local/pgsql
>  Password:
>  pg_dumpall: could not connect to database "template1": fe_sendauth: no password supplied

You might need to export the variables and not just set it.  I think you're
doing that with the other variables already, but I didn't see HOME being
exported.  I've never had to explicitly export these on Redhat derivatives,
so I doubt that's the problem.

What does your .pgpass look like?

I couldn't find it in the message archives.


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