Re: Warning during pg_dump

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Christian Rengstl" <Christian(dot)Rengstl(at)klinik(dot)uni-regensburg(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Warning during pg_dump
Date: 2006-10-03 15:35:13
Message-ID: 26150.1159889713@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Christian Rengstl" <Christian(dot)Rengstl(at)klinik(dot)uni-regensburg(dot)de> writes:
> when i issued the following command: pg_dump -d mydb -Fc -Z9 -U dbadmin > base_backup.tar
> i keep getting warning messages: pg_dump: [custom archiver] WARNING: ftell mismatch with expected position -- ftell used.

This is definitely not very cool. What platform are you on exactly
(particularly, libc or glibc version), and what PG version is this?
Can you make up a self-contained test case --- perhaps a script that
fills a database with junk data that will produce the problem when
dumped?

regards, tom lane

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