Bob Lunney <bob_lunney(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> Is it possible (or smart!) to run multiple pg_dumps simulataneously on a single database, dumping different parts of the database to different files by using table and schema exclusion? I'm attempting this and sometimes it works and sometimes when I check the dump files with
> pg_restore -Fc <dumpfile> > /dev/null
> I get
> pg_restore: [custom archiver] found unexpected block ID (4) when reading data -- expected 4238
That sure sounds like a bug. What PG version are you using exactly?
Can you provide a more specific description of what you're doing,
so somebody else could reproduce this?
regards, tom lane