Re: Backup Large Tables

Hi!

I encounter errors in dumping the database using pg_dump. The database i
think is corrupt. It was looking for triggers and stored procedures that are
now longer in the database. This is also the reason why I opted to create a
program to dump the database.

On 9/22/06, Michael Nolan <htfoot(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> I have a table with over 6 million rows in it that I do a dump on every
> night. It takes less than 2 minutes to create a file that is around 650 MB.
>
> Are you maybe dumping this file in 'insert' mode?
> --
> Mike Nolan
>
> On 9/21/06, Charles Ambrose <jamjam360(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have a fairly large database tables (say an average of 3Million to
> > 4Million records). Using the pg_dump utility takes forever to dump the
> > database tables. As an alternative, I have created a program that gets all
> > the data from the table and then put it into a text file. I was also
> > unsuccessfull in this alternative to dump the database.
> >
> >
> >
>