Re: pg_dump 2GB limit? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: pg_dump 2GB limit?
Date
Msg-id 20020329121715.D62119-100000@houston.familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: pg_dump 2GB limit?  (Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>)
Responses Re: pg_dump 2GB limit?  (Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>)
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> > File size limit exceeded (core dumped)
> >
> > We suspect pg_dump.  Is this true?  Why would there be this limit in
> > pg_dump?  Is it scheduled to be fixed?

Try piping the output of pg_dump through bzip2 before writing it to disk.
Or else, I think that pg_dump has -z or something parameters for turning
on compression.

Chris




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