On 2012-09-11, Mike Christensen m...@kitchenpc.com wrote:
Is the TAR format just the raw SQL commands, just tar'ed and then sent
over the wire? It'd be cool if there was some compressed binary
backup of a database that could be easily downloaded, or even better,
a way to just move an entire
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 01:21 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Mike Christensen m...@kitchenpc.com writes:
Oh reading the online docs, it looks like what I may have wanted was:
--format=custom
Right. That does everything tar format does, only better --- the only
thing tar format beats it at is you
Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes:
We could change the tar code to produce POSIX 2001 format archives,
which don't have that limitation. But if someone wanted to do some work
in this area, it might be more useful to look into a zip-based format.
I find it doubtful that it's worth
Is there something that can be done smarter with this error message?
pg_dump: dumping contents of table pages
pg_dump: [tar archiver] archive member too large for tar format
pg_dump: *** aborted because of error
If there's any hard limits (like memory, or RAM) that can be checked
before it
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Mike Christensen m...@kitchenpc.com wrote:
Is there something that can be done smarter with this error message?
pg_dump: dumping contents of table pages
pg_dump: [tar archiver] archive member too large for tar format
pg_dump: *** aborted because of error
Jeff Janes jeff.ja...@gmail.com writes:
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Mike Christensen m...@kitchenpc.com wrote:
Is there something that can be done smarter with this error message?
pg_dump: dumping contents of table pages
pg_dump: [tar archiver] archive member too large for tar format
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
Jeff Janes jeff.ja...@gmail.com writes:
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Mike Christensen m...@kitchenpc.com wrote:
Is there something that can be done smarter with this error message?
pg_dump: dumping contents of table pages
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Mike Christensen m...@kitchenpc.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
Jeff Janes jeff.ja...@gmail.com writes:
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Mike Christensen m...@kitchenpc.com
wrote:
Is there something that can be
Mike Christensen m...@kitchenpc.com writes:
Oh reading the online docs, it looks like what I may have wanted was:
--format=custom
Right. That does everything tar format does, only better --- the only
thing tar format beats it at is you can disassemble it with tar. Back
in the day that seemed
Mike Christensen m...@kitchenpc.com writes:
Is the TAR format just the raw SQL commands, just tar'ed and then sent
over the wire?
Sorta. If you pull it apart with tar, you'll find out there's a SQL
script that creates the database schema, and then a separate tar-member
file containing the data
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
Mike Christensen m...@kitchenpc.com writes:
Oh reading the online docs, it looks like what I may have wanted was:
--format=custom
Right. That does everything tar format does, only better --- the only
thing tar format beats
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