Re: [ADMIN] large database: problems with pg_dump and pg_restore

2010-10-31 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
"Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais" writes: > If you can spend some more time using -Fc, then you'll be able to play > with -l and -L switches of pg_restore to optionally decide what should > be restored or not (with more control than -n, -t, etc, think about > excluding slony stuffs as instanc

Re: [ADMIN] large database: problems with pg_dump and pg_restore

2010-10-27 Thread Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais
> > -Original Message- > From: pgsql-admin-ow...@postgresql.org > [mailto:pgsql-admin-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jehan-Guillaume > (ioguix) de Rorthais > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 4:22 PM > To: Martin Povolny > Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org > Subject:

[ADMIN] Re: [ADMIN] large database: problems with pg_dump and pg_restore

2010-10-27 Thread Martin Povolny
27.10.2010 t...@sss.pgh.pa.us napsal(a): > =?utf-8?Q?Martin_Povolny?= writes: >> I had 5 databases, 4 dumped ok, the 5th, the largest failed dumping: I >> was unable to >> make a dump in the default 'tar' format. I got this message: >> pg_dump: [tar archiver] archive member too large for tar forma

Re: [ADMIN] large database: problems with pg_dump and pg_restore

2010-10-26 Thread mark
ubject: Re: [ADMIN] large database: problems with pg_dump and pg_restore -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Or even compress AND split it ! pg_dump -Fc dbname | split -b 1G - dump_dbname and restore: cat dump_dbname* | pg_restore -d dbname or cat dump_dbname* | pg_restore | psql

Re: [ADMIN] large database: problems with pg_dump and pg_restore

2010-10-26 Thread Tom Lane
=?utf-8?Q?Martin_Povolny?= writes: > I had 5 databases, 4 dumped ok, the 5th, the largest failed dumping: I was > unable to > make a dump in the default 'tar' format. I got this message: > pg_dump: [tar archiver] archive member too large for tar format This is expected: tar format has a document

Re: [ADMIN] large database: problems with pg_dump and pg_restore

2010-10-26 Thread Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais
gt; > *From:* pgsql-admin-ow...@postgresql.org > [mailto:pgsql-admin-ow...@postgresql.org] *On Behalf Of *Martin Povolny > *Sent:* Tuesday, 26 October 2010 10:12 PM > *To:* pgsql-admin@postgresql.org > *Subject:* [ADMIN] large database: problems with pg_dump and pg_restore > >

Re: [ADMIN] large database: problems with pg_dump and pg_restore

2010-10-26 Thread Samuel Stearns
Of Martin Povolny Sent: Tuesday, 26 October 2010 10:12 PM To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: [ADMIN] large database: problems with pg_dump and pg_restore Hallo, I have some quite grave problems with dumping and restoring large databases (>4GB of dump). I had 5 databases, 4 dumped ok, the 5t

Re: [ADMIN] large database: problems with pg_dump and pg_restore

2010-10-26 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Martin Povolny : Hallo, I have some quite grave problems with dumping and restoring large databases (>4GB of dump). I had 5 databases, 4 dumped ok, the 5th, the largest failed dumping: I was unable to make a dump in the default 'tar' format. I got this message: pg_dump: [tar a

[ADMIN] large database: problems with pg_dump and pg_restore

2010-10-26 Thread Martin Povolny
Hallo, I have some quite grave problems with dumping and restoring large databases (>4GB of dump). I had 5 databases, 4 dumped ok, the 5th, the largest failed dumping: I was unable to make a dump in the default 'tar' format. I got this message: pg_dump: [tar archiver] archive member too large

Re: [ADMIN] large database problems, solved?!

1999-03-08 Thread hal Lynch
>The table contains 22+ million records which are formatted so they >can be loaded using the psql copy command. Well I solved the problem. It turns out that I had a programmer (me) malfunction. My 22+ million record data had every other record containing only a single character, a newline. My

Re: [ADMIN] large database problems

1999-03-05 Thread Jan Kim
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 01:08:21PM -0700, hal Lynch wrote: > I have a tabel I am trying to use but it won't work. Here are the > particulars: > > Digital Unix 4.0E > Postgres 6.3 > DEC 3000 400s > 100M+ memory > 500M swap > 8 gig drive reserved for postgres > With the full 22M records it s

[ADMIN] large database problems

1999-03-05 Thread hal Lynch
I have a tabel I am trying to use but it won't work. Here are the particulars: Digital Unix 4.0E Postgres 6.3 DEC 3000 400s 100M+ memory 500M swap 8 gig drive reserved for postgres To create the table: #!/bin/sh psql sis << \__EOD__ drop table trnscpt; create table trnscpt ( SSN