Re: DB restore fails W2k.

On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 16:16, Dan wrote:
> Hello,
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> We have upgraded our PostgreSQL database version from 7.3.1 (Cygwin)
> under Windows 2000 server to v8.03 for windows.
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> Now we dumped our database (app. size 6 GB) with PgAdmin III with
> success. The problem now is that we can’t completely restore our
> database with the dump file. The restore utility just stops when
> reaching a certain point in the dump file.
>
> Please help us, we can’t afford loosing our database with several
> years of work.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> /Dan
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> Here is some info on the dump file:
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> ; Archive created at Wed Aug 17 21:09:56 2005
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> ; dbname: a_db
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> ; TOC Entries: 43
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> ; Compression: -1
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> ; Dump Version: 1.10-0
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> ; Format: CUSTOM
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> ; Integer: 4 bytes
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> ; Offset: 4 bytes
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> ; Dumped from database version: 7.3.1
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> ; Dumped by pg_dump version: 8.0.0
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> Error displayed when restoring.
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> C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.0\pgAdmin III\pg_restore.exe -i -h
> localhost -p 5432 -U postgres -d a_db -a -t pictures -v
> "D:\a_db.backup"
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> pg_restore: connecting to database for restore
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> pg_restore: restoring data for table " pictures"
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> pg_restore: [custom archiver] error during file seek: Invalid argument
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> pg_restore: *** aborted because of error
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> Process returned exit code 1.

Have you tried using psql to restore? This almost sounds like you're
hitting a file size limit somewhere, like the 2 gig file size limit
linux kernels suffered from years ago.