Re: pg_dump - lost synchronization with server: got message type "d", length 6036499

Tom Lane wrote:
> Klint Gore <kgore4(at)une(dot)edu(dot)au> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Maybe you've found a memory leak in pg_dump (it wouldn't be the first
> >> one). Does this database have a particularly large number of objects?
>
> > I wouldn't call it large - 27 tables, 111 functions, 21 custom types
> > (used for set returning function results).
>
> [ squint... ] Hard to see how that could be eating half a gig of
> pg_dump memory space.
>
> Would you be willing to send me a "pg_dump -s" (ie, just schema no
> data) dump of this DB? Off-list of course.
>
>
Upon more investigation pg_dump 8.3.1 on linux (ubuntu feisty) across
the network completes properly.

klint.

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