Re: Error in restoring a large object

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Chris McCormick <mccormick1(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Error in restoring a large object
Date: 2011-07-17 15:17:06
Message-ID: 12075.1310915826@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Chris McCormick <mccormick1(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I am testing a backup and restore of a db in version 7.4.30. During the
> restore, after successfully restoring many BLOBS, I get the following error:

How many is "many"?

> pg_restore: restoring large object OID 318907
> pg_restore: restoring large object OID 318909
> pg_restore: restoring large object OID 318911
> pg_restore: [archiver] could not write to large object (result: 4294967295,
> expected: 32768)
> pg_restore: *** aborted because of error

> What does it mean that the archiver "could not write" to the large
> object? How can I find out more information about the object in question
> (and possibly delete it)?

Try looking into the postmaster log to see if there's any corresponding
failure logged on the server side.

regards, tom lane

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