Re: pg_dump large-file support > 16GB

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 10:17 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Rafael Martinez Guerrero <r(dot)m(dot)guerrero(at)usit(dot)uio(dot)no> writes:
> > We are trying to dump a 30GB+ database using pg_dump with the --file
> > option. In the beginning everything works fine, pg_dump runs and we get
> > a dumpfile. But when this file becomes 16GB it disappears from the
> > filesystem, pg_dump continues working without giving an error until it
> > finnish (even when the file does not exist)(The filesystem has free
> > space).
>
> Is that a plain text, tar, or custom dump (-Ft or -Fc)? Is the behavior
> different if you just write to stdout instead of using --file?
>
> regards, tom lane

- In this example, it is a plain text (--format=p).
- If I write to stdout and redirect to a file, the dump finnish without
problems and I get a dump-text-file over 16GB without problems.

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Rafael Martinez, <r(dot)m(dot)guerrero(at)usit(dot)uio(dot)no>
Center for Information Technology Services
University of Oslo, Norway

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