Hello all, I got surprised by this message: ------------------------------------- The program "pg_dump" is needed by pg_dumpall but was not found in the same directory as "/usr/bin/pg_dumpall". Check your installation. -------------------------------------- It's quite strange because I'm quite the pg_* binaries are well installed: ---------------------------------------- $ ls -la /usr/bin/ | grep pg_ -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin root 16632 Oct 16 17:39 pg_config -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin root 16636 Oct 16 17:39 pg_controldata -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin root 24880 Oct 16 17:39 pg_ctl -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin root 187996 Oct 16 17:39 pg_dump -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin root 43444 Oct 16 17:39 pg_dumpall -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin root 23020 Oct 16 17:39 pg_resetxlog -rwxr-xr-x 1 admin root 84460 Oct 16 17:39 pg_restore $ ---------------------------------------- This is what I do: system("su postgres -c \"pg_dumpall --clean > some_file\""); this is run from within a Perl module called from within a Perl script. I've tried the same command directlly on the shell and it works fine. But from the perl script it complaints about pg_dump !!!??? I've even tested both commands directlly on the cmd line and they work properlly ! any ideas ? thx joao ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster