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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: why pg_dump eats so much memory?
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Msg-id 618.969679985@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to why pg_dump eats so much memory?  (Cristóvão Dalla Costa <cdallacosta@bigfoot.com>)
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=?iso-8859-1?Q?Crist=F3v=E3o_Dalla_Costa?= <cdallacosta@bigfoot.com> writes:
> I just noticed that when I run pg_dump to backup my databases it will use
> enormous amounts of memory,
> I would like to know the causes of that behaviour, and, hopefully, how I can
> fix it. I'm running 7.0.2 on freebsd 4.1.

Don't use -d or -D options.

            regards, tom lane

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