Re: pg_dumpall won't work?

On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 12:52:26 -0500, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>Joel Mc Graw <jpmcgraw1@home.com> writes:
>> I tried to run pg_dumpall and I got "strdup: failed to allocate
>> memory".  I tried to run it again and I get a segmentation fault.
>
>Strange.  Can you provide a debugger backtrace from the segfault?
>Another thing that might be useful is to log the queries being sent
>to the server, so we can see what the last few were.  Easiest way
>to do that is
>    export PGOPTIONS="-d2"
>(or equivalent for whatever shell you use) before running pg_dump.
>
>            regards, tom lane
>
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OK, I finally have a moment to address this (God it's scary having a
production DB and not being able to back it up....)
Tom,  I'm afraid I'm not quite the guru I'd like to be; can you (or
anyone) provide guidance on getting a "debugger backtrace from the
segfault"?
The following shows the queries after exporting PGOPTIONS="-d2"

-
-- pg_dumpall (7.1.3)
--
\connect template1
DELETE FROM pg_shadow WHERE usesysid <> (SELECT datdba FROM pg_database
WHERE da
tname = 'template0');

CREATE USER "jmcgraw" WITH SYSID 1001 CREATEDB NOCREATEUSER;
CREATE USER "production" WITH SYSID 1002 CREATEDB NOCREATEUSER;
CREATE USER "jbrucker" WITH SYSID 1006 NOCREATEDB NOCREATEUSER;

DELETE FROM pg_group;


--
-- Database production
--
\connect template1 production
CREATE DATABASE "production" WITH TEMPLATE = template0;
\connect production production


TIA for any and all help.





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