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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pg_dump - lost synchronization with server: got message type "d", length 6036499
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Msg-id 23658.1215060991@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to pg_dump - lost synchronization with server: got message type "d", length 6036499  (Klint Gore <kgore4@une.edu.au>)
Responses Re: pg_dump - lost synchronization with server: got message type "d", length 6036499
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Klint Gore <kgore4@une.edu.au> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Would you be willing to send me a "pg_dump -s" (ie, just schema no
>> data) dump of this DB?  Off-list of course.
>>
> attached.  created with pg_dump 8.3.3 win32 to the 8.3.1 win32 server.

Thanks.  When I reload this here and try to pg_dump it, I see no evidence
of any problem --- pg_dump completes pretty quickly and seems to eat
no more than a megabyte or so.  I'm not sure what to make of that.
Could there be a Windows-specific memory problem in pg_dump?

            regards, tom lane

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