Re: pg_dump on older version of postgres eating huge amounts of memory

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Steve Krall <swalker(at)iglou(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_dump on older version of postgres eating huge amounts of memory
Date: 2004-03-19 02:38:09
Message-ID: 16636.1079663889@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Steve Krall <swalker(at)iglou(dot)com> writes:
> When doing a pg_dump databasename > file.dmp pg_dump eats up all the
> memory, and is eventually killed because it takes
> up a huge amount of memory. The dump file is always 0 bytes. It works
> perfectly fine on our other server.

> When we run pg_dump in verbose mode, it is trying to get the trigger
> information.

Can you run it with query logging turned on, so we can see what query(s)
it's issuing while it eats RAM?

regards, tom lane

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