Re: Can't make backup

From: Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com>
To: sebaioni-postgresql(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)ar
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Can't make backup
Date: 2008-01-03 15:28:07
Message-ID: 9AB37274-7A73-4786-8C96-E5A758C6DBFC@myemma.com
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On Jan 3, 2008, at 5:59 AM, Sebastián Baioni wrote:

> I don't have any table called pg_locks in pg_catalog.
> We let running pg_dump 8.2.5 at 1:30 AM after an automatic reboot
> of the PostgreSQL service and it didn't finish. When I came to the
> office at 9:00 there were a lot of locks, but all of them were from
> the pg_dump conection.

The pg_locks view most certainly exists. Here's the list of all of
the system catalog tables and view: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/
8.2/interactive/catalogs.html. If you haven't looked at pg_locks how
do you know "there were a lot of locks"?

Erik Jones

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