On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 10:17 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Rafael Martinez Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We are trying to dump a 30GB+ database using pg_dump with the --file > > option. In the beginning everything works fine, pg_dump runs and we get > > a dumpfile. But when this file becomes 16GB it disappears from the > > filesystem, pg_dump continues working without giving an error until it > > finnish (even when the file does not exist)(The filesystem has free > > space). > > Is that a plain text, tar, or custom dump (-Ft or -Fc)? Is the behavior > different if you just write to stdout instead of using --file? > > regards, tom lane
- In this example, it is a plain text (--format=p). - If I write to stdout and redirect to a file, the dump finnish without problems and I get a dump-text-file over 16GB without problems. -- Rafael Martinez, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Center for Information Technology Services University of Oslo, Norway PGP Public Key: http://folk.uio.no/rafael/
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