"Josh" <josh(at)globalherald(dot)net> writes:
> The following bug has been logged online:
> pg_dump, as packaged in postgresql-8.0.3-1PGDG.i686.rpm, fails with no
> output whatsoever when run from a terminal window:
> [josh(at)localhost ~]$ pg_dump -U username database > backup.sql
Try turning off SELinux enforcement, or better update the selinux
policy package and do a restorecon on all of /usr/bin. The earlier
releases of selinux-policy-targeted prevent pg_dump from writing on
/dev/tty :-( ... which makes it a bit hard to emit error messages...
regards, tom lane