Re: pg_dump problem

Ed Loehr wrote:
>
> Graham Vickrage wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to backup a production database running on v6.5 and restore it
> > on our test machine running v6.5.
> >
> > The largest table has about 750,000 rows, the other 5 tables are very small
> > approx 100 rows.
> >
> > When I try to restore the database using "psql -e database < db.out" I get
> > the error message
> > "query buffer max length of 16384 exceeded" after each row.
> >
> > Would somebody please tell me how to increse this buffer (assuming this is
> > whats required to solve the problem) as I have looked though the
> > documentation and I am still struggling :-(
>
> You probably don't need to increase the buffer. More likely, there is an
> unterminated string constant somewhere in db.out. Yes, that would
> probably be a bug in pg_dump, but I do vaguely recall problems in 6.5*
> with pg_dump. You might search deja for your error message.
>
> Regards,
> Ed Loehr

i seem to remember something about this,

if i remeber right i broke out the data and inserted it back in using a
perl script

using a count loop