"Abraham Grief" <abraham.gr...@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 -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs