"Ansley, Michael" wrote:
  >Hi, all
  >
  >I dumped a table using pg_dump, and then tried to import it into a new
  >database.  Of the ~210,000 records in the original table, only about 193,000
  >were loaded, and the remainder caused an error: something about the query
  >buffer being too small.  Now, I know that queries are limited in size, due
  >to the size of the query buffer, but none of these insert queries are longer
  >than about 600 characters.  Is it possible that the stream from the dump
  >file is causing the buffer to overflow by simply overloading it with
  >incoming queries, and if so, how do I prevent this?  If not, then does
  >anybody have any idea what the problem is.
 
The problem is some kind of syntax error in the dump output that makes
the parser think a query is not finished, so it runs together many
queries until it runs out of space.  You need to find where the error is
occurring and correct the dump script.

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