Re: Pg_dump uses up RAM and swap space

Hi Roland,

Szabó Roland wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Reading the archives I understand this is a problem of postgres version
> prior 7.1, and I'm experiencing the very same error as Steve Riley
> reported last month. I saw that the suggestion was to use 7.2, but I'm
> not sure you meant dump 7.1 database from 7.1 backend using 7.2 pg_dump.
> We have approx. 1.5 Gb of data in a 7.1 database, and would not like to
> loose it, but cannot dump it with 7.1.

Well, just to make sure you're safe, before testing anything you should
at least make a backup of the entire PostgreSQL $PGDATA directory (*with
PostgreSQL not running!*).

That way, if anything does go wrong, you can always copy this backup
into place and um.. try again (but differently of course).

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

> If this is the way to go, please
> confirm that.
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Roland Szabo
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