From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

I see someone missed an ancient bit of shell-scripting lore:
on some older shells, if your script's argument list is empty,
then "$@" generates an empty-string word rather than no word
at all.  You need to write ${1+"$@"} to get the latter behavior.
(Read your shell man page to see exactly how that works,
but it does the Right Thing on every Bourne shell.)

In particular, pg_dumpall fails when invoked without any switches
on HPUX 9.*, because pg_dump gets an empty-string argument that it
thinks is the name of the database to dump.  I expect this bug
also affects some other OSes, but couldn't tell you just which ones.
Patch attached.

src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ do
 	echo "${BS}connect template1 $POSTGRES_USER"
 	echo "create database $DATABASE;"
 	echo "${BS}connect $DATABASE $POSTGRES_USER"
-	pg_dump "$@" $DATABASE
+	pg_dump ${1+"$@"} $DATABASE
 	if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]
 	then	echo "pg_dump failed on $DATABASE, exiting" 1>&2
 		exit 1