Adam Williams <awilliam@mdah.state.ms.us> writes: > Hi, as my title states I'm trying to upgrade from 7.2 to 7.3 on redhat > linux 9. I've been following the documentation instructions on the > website but ran into problems. I searched on google but could not find > my answer. On postgresql as user postgres I ran the command pg_dumpall >>> sroom1 and then after installing 7.3 I ran psql template1 < sroom1 > but when I run that after a bunch of grants, revokes, etc, it prints the > error: > \connect: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed for user "jtate" Your best bet is to switch the authentication mode to "trust" for long enough to load the dump file. 7.2's pg_dump tends to use "\connect - otheruser" to switch object ownership, and this will not work when you are using IDENT authorization. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend