Re: BUG #4901: Column name "window" breaks pg_dump/pg_restore

On 2009-07-05, Steve Purcell <steve@sanityinc.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply, Tom. That makes sense, and yes, that does
> appear to be the problem.
>
> I thought that I *was* using the newer pg_dump, but I'm doing this on
> Debian:
>
> # su - postgres -c "env PGCLUSTER=8.3/main pg_dump openx|env
> PGCLUSTER=8.4/main pg_restore -d template1 -C"
>
> And the debian pg_wrapper script ends up selecting the 8.3 pg_dump
> binary in the first case.  I'll have to figure out if there's even a
> way to execute the newer pg_dump against the old database, which I
> expect to be fiddly.

easiest is to bypass pg_wrapper

/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/pg_dump -p 5432

I have raised this with debian.