I had similar problems with the tar format. 3 smaller databases worked,
the biggest did not. Switching to -Fc fixed it for me.
Sorry for not reporting this.
Harco
Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Andreasen <michael@dunlops.com> writes:
>
>> pg_dump -Ft $db | bzip2 > $db.dump.tbz
>> ...
>> pg_restore: [tar archiver] could not find header for file 3765.dat in
>> tar archive
>>
>
> Does it work better if you use -Fc format? There was a similar report
> recently, which makes me think the tar-format code has got some kind
> of problem, but without a test case it's hard to look into it.
>
> regards, tom lane
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