I've done this with the debug level all the way up...

You can get the file here( 20 megs uncompressed, 130K compressed ):
http://www.papajohns.com/postgres/postgres.log.bz2

While this dump was running, top reported that pg_dump was taking up 
around 500-550megs.  Then the machine stopped responding.

If you need anything else, just ask.

Steve

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> Steve Krall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > When doing a pg_dump databasename > file.dmp pg_dump eats up all the 
> > memory, and is eventually killed because it takes 
> > up a huge amount of memory.  The dump file is always 0 bytes.  It works 
> > perfectly fine on our other server.  
> 
> > When we run pg_dump in verbose mode, it is trying to get the trigger 
> > information.
> 
> Can you run it with query logging turned on, so we can see what query(s)
> it's issuing while it eats RAM?
> 
>                       regards, tom lane
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