Bug #553: Error Vacuuming and restoring a DataBase

Miguel Juan (miqueljuan(at)inicia(dot)es) reports a bug with a severity of 2
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Short Description
Error Vacuuming and restoring a DataBase

Long Description
Hi.

About two months ago I sent here a message reporting a error while vacuuming a large table (near a million registers) with Postgresql 7.1.2 and Tom Lane suggest to upgrade the version to 7.1.3 so I did it on another computer but when I try to restore the database into this computer I get the same errors that I get with the "vacuum" command.

The error only appears with large tables. As far I know, with tables under 200.000 registers works fine. It looks like an error managing big transactions (I use the COPY xxx FROM stdin; command)

I can make the restore process if I use a pgDump with proper Insert Strings option (one INSERT for each register) but it takes a long, long , long time to restore the whole database.

Regards

Miguel Juan

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