Rafael Martinez Guerrero <r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no> 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,
FWIW, I tried and failed to duplicate this problem on a Fedora Core 3
machine using an ext3 filesystem. I set up a dummy database that would
produce an approximately 18GB text dump and did
pg_dump big --file spare/big.dump
Seemed to work fine.
regards, tom lane
