Re: pg_dump max file size exceeded

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Rolf Luettecke wrote:

RL> >"Fred Moyer" <fred(at)digicamp(dot)com> writes:
RL> > ran time pg_dump -c --verbose database > datafile.psql from the command
RL> > line and got a file size limit exceeded. datafile.psql stopped at 2 gigs.
RL> > any ideas how to exceed that limit?
RL>
RL> Workaround: Pipe output to gzip/bzip2, if compressed file size does not
RL> reach 2 GB limit, or cut output into 2GB-pieces.

... and if it's still does not fit, pipe it further into split(1) ;-)
[though I don't know whether this utility exists in standard Linux
distrib. In BSDs it does.]

Sincerely,
D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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