On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 01:46 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > 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 ... Thanks John. The backup script is running as root, so presumably I'd have to use sudo? Or should I run a separate cron job as postgres to do the above, and run the backup script separately? Thanks, Andy -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general