On 7/21/2015 1:31 AM, Andrew Beverley wrote:
I had to specify a database name when connecting: psql -U backup -c "select pg_start_backup('Daily backup')" -d postgres
psql defaults to the current user for both the database name and user name. I probably would have run that psql command as the system postgres user and not specified any -U or -d ...
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