Re: problems with pg_dump/pg_restore - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: problems with pg_dump/pg_restore
Date
Msg-id 18866.1011218575@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to problems with pg_dump/pg_restore  (Mirek Hankus <M.Hankus@ce3.pl>)
List pgsql-admin
Mirek Hankus <M.Hankus@ce3.pl> writes:
> after some tables are copied error occures

> pg_dump: [tar archiver] could not write to tar member (wrote 1087,
> attempted 5365)
> pg_dump: *** aborted because of error

If you were writing on a disk file I'd say you've run out of disk space.
Since you're writing to a pipe the answer isn't so obvious.  Is it
possible that you've run into some system-dependent limit (a ulimit
setting on how much a given process can output, perhaps)?

            regards, tom lane

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