Re: problems dumping

On Wednesday 16 October 2002 06:54, Jyry Kuukkanen wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Andreas Schmitz wrote:
> > I have a problem dumping with 7.2.3. When I do a pg_dumpall redirecting
> > this to a file I have >40000 lines of schema and data. Running psql
> > template1 < <dumpfile> the databases get partially created, i.e the
> > schema is completely there but data even of the big tables is missing.
> > The dumpfile itself has only 150k lines left. It used to work before I
> > upgraded to 7.2.3. Any explainations ?
> > I also did a " pg_dumpall -C -F p -f test2 -v". I can see the file test2
> > growing and I can see the schema an the data written in there. It all
> > looks fine. When the command is finished the shrinks drastically and the
> > data seems to be gone. Does anybody know the phenomena ?

> > drwxr-xr-x 2 postgres postgres 512 Oct 15 18:10 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 postgres postgres 512 Oct 15 18:05 ..
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres postgres 168632320 Oct 15 18:31 test2
> > bash-2.03$ ls -al
> > total 62
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 postgres postgres 512 Oct 15 18:10 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 postgres postgres 512 Oct 15 18:05 ..
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres postgres 28684 Oct 15 18:33 test2
> > bash-2.03$
>
> Pretty strange, isn't it?
>
> It might be worth while dumping one database at a time and see what might
> cause the trouble.
>
> Or maybe it is the OS that truncates the file for some odd reason. What is
> the platform?
>
> Is you compress the dump on the fly, do you get truncated effect, too?
> (pg_dumpall |bzip2 -c >dumpfile)
>
> Hope this helps sorting out your problem.
>
> --Jyry

Thanks a lot for the answer. This also happens with a compressed/gz file. The
Platform is a SUN U2 with solaris 8.

regards

-andreas