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

From Jan Wieck
Subject Re: pg_dump 2GB limit?
Date
Msg-id 200203291902.g2TJ2hQ29153@saturn.janwieck.net
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In response to Re: pg_dump 2GB limit?  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > > 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.
   And if that isn't enough, you can pipe the output (compressed   or not) into split(1).


Jan

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