Re: pg_dump problem

From: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
To: Tatiana Motova <t(dot)motova(at)inform-link(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_dump problem
Date: 2003-03-24 19:11:44
Message-ID: 1048533104.13853.309.camel@camel
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On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 13:15, Tatiana Motova wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i have a problem dumping the database containing blobs.
>
> The database has pdf files stored in one of the tables and when there
> are let say 10 files in it, pg_dump works perfectly, but when about
> 400Mb of files are loaded into db, pg_dump fails with the following
> message:
>
> pg_dump -a -b -Ft -f bdata_030321.tar -v mydb
> ...
> pg_dump: [tar archiver] could not write to tar member (wrote 872,
> attempted 8191)
>
> It's not a matter of available disk space, there's plenty of it.
>

Haven't seen any other response on this one.... This bug used to exist
in the 7.1.x versions, but I think it was fixed in one of the 7.2.x
releases. Can you post your version info? In the meantime you might be
able to work around it by using the -Fc instead.

Robert Treat

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