Hi, everyone: It appears that I have a deeper, darker problem at work here. After lots of help from lots of users (thanks, everyone!), my pg_dump command just does not work. No way, no how. My PostgreSQL server is also not logging to /var/log/pgsql so I'm not getting any love there, either. If I attempt the commands "\dp" or "\du" in psql, I get this: ERROR: relation "pg_catalog.pg_user" does not exist Surely other commands will fail as well. I have also installed phpPgAdmin (v.3.5.1) to attempt graphical management of the database, and although I can log in I do not get the next screen... there has clearly been an error, and it barfs with the same command: the relation pg_catalog.pg_user does not exist. Can anyone suggest where or how I might recreate this relation? I'm about to go join some of the PostgreSQL mailing lists, but it seems odd that only I would have this problem. Cheers, -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>