pg_dump large-file support > 16GB - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Rafael Martinez Guerrero
Subject pg_dump large-file support > 16GB
Date
Msg-id 1111064735.6434.109.camel@bbking.uio.no
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Responses Re: pg_dump large-file support > 16GB  (Michael Kleiser <mkl@webde-ag.de>)
Re: pg_dump large-file support > 16GB  (Lonni J Friedman <netllama@gmail.com>)
Re: pg_dump large-file support > 16GB  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: pg_dump large-file support > 16GB  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
Hello

We are having problems with pg_dump.

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, pg_dump continues working without giving an error until it
finnish (even when the file does not exist)(The filesystem has free
space).

I can generate without problems files bigger than 16GB with other
programs.

Some information:
---------------------------
OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 4)
Kernel: 2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP i686
PG: 7.4.7

LVM version 1.0.8-2(26/05/2004)
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on lvm(58,6), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
----------------------------

Any ideas? It looks like pg_dump has a limit of 16GB? How can we solve
this?

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Rafael Martinez, <r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no>
Center for Information Technology Services
University of Oslo, Norway

PGP Public Key: http://folk.uio.no/rafael/

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