You are really hosed.

Hi,
I'm trying to backup a database using pg_dump, but whenever I try I
get an error telling me I am really hosed. The template1 database works,
psql works fine, the database is live and working just peachy, but I can't
back it up. What does this mean? Why doesn't it want to work??

nm

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[nikm(at)db01 /tmp]# pg_dump -o darwin > q
pg_dump: couldn't find the template1 database. You are really hosed.
Giving up.
[nikm(at)db01 /tmp]# env | grep PG
PGLIB=/usr/local/pgsql/lib
PGDATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data
[nikm(at)db01 /tmp]# psql template1
Welcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor:
Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL
[PostgreSQL 6.5.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc 2.95.1]

type \? for help on slash commands
type \q to quit
type \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
You are currently connected to the database: template1

template1=> \d
Database = template1
+------------------+----------------------------------+----------+
| Owner | Relation | Type |
+------------------+----------------------------------+----------+
| root | abc | table |
| root | abc_pkey | index |
+------------------+----------------------------------+----------+

template1=> \q
[nikm(at)db01 /tmp]#