Re: why pg_dump eats so much memory?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Cristóvão Dalla Costa <cdallacosta(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: why pg_dump eats so much memory?
Date: 2000-09-23 03:33:05
Message-ID: 618.969679985@sss.pgh.pa.us
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=?iso-8859-1?Q?Crist=F3v=E3o_Dalla_Costa?= <cdallacosta(at)bigfoot(dot)com> writes:
> I just noticed that when I run pg_dump to backup my databases it will use
> enormous amounts of memory,
> I would like to know the causes of that behaviour, and, hopefully, how I can
> fix it. I'm running 7.0.2 on freebsd 4.1.

Don't use -d or -D options.

regards, tom lane

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