pg_dump corrupts database? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephen Robert Norris
Subject pg_dump corrupts database?
Date
Msg-id 1060132732.19387.3.camel@ws12.commsecure.com.au
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Responses Re: pg_dump corrupts database?  (Dennis Gearon <gearond@cvc.net>)
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I've encountered this a few times with 7.2 and 7.3.

If I do pg_dump of some large (> 100Mb - the bigger the more likely)
database, and it gets interrupted for some reason (e.g. the target disk
fills up), the source database become corrupt. I start getting errors
like:

open of /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_clog/0323 failed: No such file or
directory

and I have to drop/restore the table in question.

Is this a known problem? Is there some safe way to dump databases that
avoids it?

    Stephen
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Stephen Robert Norris <srn@commsecure.com.au>
CommSecure Australia Pty Ltd


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