Joost Kraaijeveld <J(dot)Kraaijeveld(at)Askesis(dot)nl> writes:
> Running pg_dump on a FreeBSD 6.1 machine gives me:
> [root(at)s13(dot)nedstars(dot)nl:/data/even]# pg_dump -Ft -f ./my_db-2007-5-16.backup -U user my_db
> /tmp: write failed, filesystem is full
> pg_dump: [tar archiver] could not write to tar member (wrote 0,
> attempted 86)
Do you have a specific reason to use -Ft rather than -Fc mode? -Fc
does not have this limitation, nor some other ones.
While I don't wish to actually deprecate -Ft, I wonder whether the
documentation should provide a more forceful recommendation to use
-Fc unless you have a good reason not to.
regards, tom lane