Re: Problem w/ dumping huge table and no disk space

There is no way to add a temporary hard drive, or mount another drive on
another machine, and then dump to that?

David Ford wrote:
>
> Help if you would please :)
>
> I have a 10million+ row table and I've only got a couple hundred megs
> left. I can't delete any rows, pg runs out of disk space and crashes.
> I can't pg_dump w/ compressed, the output file is started, has the
> schema and a bit other info comprising about 650 bytes, runs for 30
> minutes and pg runs out of disk space and crashes. My pg_dump cmd is:
> "pg_dump -d -f syslog.tar.gz -F c -t syslog -Z 9 syslog".
>
> I want to dump this database (entire pgsql dir is just over two gigs)
> and put it on another larger machine.
>
> I can't afford to lose this information, are there any helpful hints?
>
> I'll be happy to provide more information if desired.
>
> David
>
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