Brock Henry <brock.henry@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I personally would create an ssh tunnel for port 5432, if ssh was open but > 5432 was not. +1, but I think your example is not quite right: > ssh -L 5432:localhost:5432 redhat_ip_address > pg_dumpall -U postgres | psql -h localhost -U postgres If you have a local PG server, it's probably using 5432 so that ssh can't bind to that. I think you want something like ssh -L 5433:localhost:5432 redhat_ip_address pg_dumpall -U postgres | psql -h localhost -p 5433 -U postgres where "5433" can be any locally-unused port number (caution: untested; the ssh arguments may still not be quite right). regards, tom lane
