Re: Problems with pg_dump

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stefan Holzheu <stefan(dot)holzheu(at)bitoek(dot)uni-bayreuth(dot)de>
Cc: ADMIN <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Problems with pg_dump
Date: 2004-01-26 14:39:58
Message-ID: 7276.1075127998@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Stefan Holzheu <stefan(dot)holzheu(at)bitoek(dot)uni-bayreuth(dot)de> writes:
> Two weeks ago we did an upgrade from postgresql 7.3.2 to 7.4.1.
> No we have the problem that pg_dump does not finish. We get the
> following error message:

> pg_dump: lost synchronization with server: got message type "5", length
> 842281016
> pg_dump: SQL command to dump the contents of table "aggr_stddev_hour"
> failed:

That's interesting. What are the column data types in that table? What
character set encoding are you using? Can you do a dump if you select
the dump-data-as-INSERT-commands option?

> The database size is about 10 GB.

How big is the particular table?

regards, tom lane

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