-bash: pg_dump: command not found

Question

I'm trying to pull a production database locally for my rails app. My local postgres version was too low so I needed to update to Postgresql 9.6.5 from 9.4.1.

I installed Postgres 9.6.6 via Homebrew as such:

brew install [email protected]

Then ran:

brew services start [email protected]

However, when I try to do pg_dump I get -bash: pg_dump: command not found.

I also tried updating my path as such:

export PATH="/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql\@9.6/9.6.6/bin:$PATH"

Any idea what I need to do to get pg_dump to work?

Solution 1

Adding this to my ~/.bash_profile did the trick:

export PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql\@9.6/9.6.6/bin:$PATH

Solution 2

For those who have this issue on Mac even though Postgres path is correctly added on your .bash_profile I found that running pg_dump directly from the Terminal does the job.

Just open your Terminal and type:

pg_dump -U username your_database > db_dump.bak

I tried the ff approach and I got the same error:

sudo su - postgres
pg_dump -U username your_database > db_dump.bak

bash: pg_dump: command not found

Solution 3

If you installed PostgreSQL by pgadmin4 in Mac, you could find the pg tool in

/Library/PostgreSQL/{version}/bin/