| From: | Jyry Kuukkanen <jyry(at)neutech(dot)fi> | 
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| To: | Fred Moyer <fred(at)digicamp(dot)com> | 
| Cc: | <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Re: pg_dump max file size exceeded | 
| Date: | 2002-03-20 06:05:34 | 
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33L0.0203200756300.6883-100000@cyclone.neutech.fi | 
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On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 16:39, Fred Moyer wrote:
> hey fellow pg'ers.
>
> ran time pg_dump -c --verbose database > datafile.psql from the command line
> and got a file size limit exceeded.  datafile.psql stopped at 2 gigs.  any
> ideas how to exceed that limit?
>
> redhat 7.2, 2.4.9-31 kernel
> postgres 7.2
Hello Fred
Are you trying to dump over NFS? NFS has a 2G file size limit and AFAIK
there is no simple way to get around it.
Howver, you could compress you dump on the fly:
pg_dump -c --verbose database |gzip -c >datafile.psql.gz
or
pg_dump -c --verbose database | bzip2 -c >datafile.psql.bz2
(for better compression)
restoring:
zcat datafile.psql.gz | psql database
or
bzcat datafile.psql.gz | psql database
Cheers,
--Jyry
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