| From: | Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | Laurette Cisneros <laurette(at)nextbus(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pg_dump 2GB limit? |
| Date: | 2002-03-29 00:35:34 |
| Message-ID: | m38z8cdxd5.fsf@varsoon.wireboard.com |
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Laurette Cisneros <laurette(at)nextbus(dot)com> writes:
> The archives search is not working on postgresql.org so I need to ask this
> question...
>
> We are using postgresql 7.2 and when dumping one of our larger databases,
> we get the following error:
>
> File size limit exceeded (core dumped)
>
> We suspect pg_dump. Is this true? Why would there be this limit in
> pg_dump? Is it scheduled to be fixed?
This means one of two things:
1) Your ulimits are set too low, or
2) Your pg_dump wasn't compiled against a C library with large file
support (greater than 2GB).
Is this on Linux?
-Doug
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