thank you all for your assistance. i tried not to be adventurous tweaking
the configuration of a production system except for system upgrade which
has not failed on me before. burned my fingers once. i need to visit the
documentation and study more the admin side of the system.
thanks all.
raffy segador
On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:27:35 +0800, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:06 AM, serafin segador<rsegador@mydestiny.net>
> wrote:
>> i found where the error is. thanks for the tip.
>>
>> i have versions 8.3.7 and 8.4 of PostgreSQL running on the same server,
>> as
>> well as versions 1.8 and 1.10 of pgAdmin. although i run the backup
>> routine
>> for pg8.4 from pgAdmin 1.10, the pdAdmin uses
>> PostgreSQL\8.3\bin\pg_dump as
>> default. i now run the backup routine from the command line utility
>> pointing to the correct version.
>
> Check the PG bin path option and File -> Options.
>
> It also sounds like you disabled the version match check on that
> dialogue, otherwise pg_dump 8.3 should have complained about be used
> with 8.4.
>
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