Re: OS File Size > 1GB - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: OS File Size > 1GB
Date
Msg-id 200207292331.g6TNVpr02005@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: OS File Size > 1GB  (Chris Ruprecht <chrup@earthlink.net>)
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Chris Ruprecht wrote:
> I know Linux can handle sizes > 2 GB, I do that all the time with pg_dumpall,
> although, pg_dumpall chokes, when it hits the 2GB boundary. To circumvent
> that, I pipe it's output to cat and redirct cat's output to the final output
> file (I have to look at pg_dump too, some time, to find out why this is
> happening).

How exactly does pg_dumpall choke on a 2GB boundary?

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