Naomi Walker wrote: > We are preparing to upgrade to 8.1 from 7.4 Postrgres. In this case, it is a Red Hat > Linux server. Using the 8.1.4 pg_dumpall, pointed at the 7.4 instance, we get the > following errors. What are the exact options? I tried to reproduce it here, using a 8.1 and 8.2 pg_dumpall, and a 7.4 server, and couldn't. > CREATE ROLE ""; > ALTER ROLE "" WITH NOSUPERUSER INHERIT NOCREATEROLE NOCREATEDB LOGIN; This is weird anyway -- do you really have a role named "" (empty string)? -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.