Re: pg_dump - lost synchronization with server: got message type "d", length 6036499 - Mailing list pgsql-general

Klint Gore <kgore4@une.edu.au> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Maybe you've found a memory leak in pg_dump (it wouldn't be the first
>> one).  Does this database have a particularly large number of objects?

> I wouldn't call it large - 27 tables, 111 functions,  21 custom types
> (used for set returning function results).

[ squint... ]  Hard to see how that could be eating half a gig of
pg_dump memory space.

Would you be willing to send me a "pg_dump -s" (ie, just schema no
data) dump of this DB?  Off-list of course.

            regards, tom lane