Re: Can't make backup - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Sebastián Baioni
Subject Re: Can't make backup
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Msg-id 132231.97829.qm@web36114.mail.mud.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: Can't make backup  ("Albe Laurenz" <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>)
Responses Re: Can't make backup  (Erik Jones <erik@myemma.com>)
Re: Can't make backup  ("Albe Laurenz" <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>)
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I don't have any table called pg_locks in pg_catalog.
We let running pg_dump 8.2.5 at 1:30 AM after an automatic reboot of the PostgreSQL service and it didn't finish. When I came to the office at 9:00 there were a lot of locks, but all of them were from the pg_dump conection.

Thanks
     Sebastián

Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at> escribió:
Sebastián Baioni wrote:
> Every day we run a Windows Programmed pg_dump, it used to
> work fine with PostgreSQL 8.0, but since we installed the new
> version we are not able to make a backup. We tried to make a
> whole database backup and it never ends. We tried to backup
> table by table and it reachs a table of 50,000 rows and it
> keeps for hours in that table, we started it again and
> pg_dump backups that same table in seconds, but it stops in
> another different table.
> If we watch the server message.# we don't have any error,
> it's like some tables were locked and pg_dump would keep
> waiting for the table to be unlocked.

If pg_dump is locked out, there should be entries in
pg_catalog.pg_locks. Check when the dump hangs!

Does the dump file keep growing or not?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe



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