Version 7.2.2, i had same problems when using version 7.1.3 as well.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Treat" <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
To: "Tatiana Motova" <t.motova@inform-link.co.uk>
Cc: <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] pg_dump problem
> On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 13:15, Tatiana Motova wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > i have a problem dumping the database containing blobs.
> >
> > The database has pdf files stored in one of the tables and when there
> > are let say 10 files in it, pg_dump works perfectly, but when about
> > 400Mb of files are loaded into db, pg_dump fails with the following
> > message:
> >
> > pg_dump -a -b -Ft -f bdata_030321.tar -v mydb
> > ...
> > pg_dump: [tar archiver] could not write to tar member (wrote 872,
> > attempted 8191)
> >
> > It's not a matter of available disk space, there's plenty of it.
> >
>
> Haven't seen any other response on this one.... This bug used to exist
> in the 7.1.x versions, but I think it was fixed in one of the 7.2.x
> releases. Can you post your version info? In the meantime you might be
> able to work around it by using the -Fc instead.
>
> Robert Treat
>