Re: pg_dump crashes - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 5/22/20 8:05 AM, Nico De Ranter wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 5:02 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
> <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 5/22/20 7:55 AM, Nico De Ranter wrote:
>      > Correct.
>      >
>      > If I run 'pg_dumpall --cluster 11/main --file=dump.sql'   the end
>     of the
>      > file looks like:
>      >
>      > ###### cut here
>      > 4557430888798830399 1061109567 1061109567 1061109567 1061109567
>     16191 \N
>      > \N ??????????????????????????????
>      > 4557430888798830399 1061109567 1061109567 1061109567 1061109567
>     16191 \N
>      > \N ??????????????????????????????
>      > \.
>      >
>      > ###### cut here
>      >
>      > If I run 'pg_dump --table=public.file --cluster 11/main
>      > --file=dump-2.sql bacula'  those lines are actually followed by
>     about
>      > 850 or so lines that look ok.  I'm assuming the difference is due to
>      > buffering.
>      > However the fact that I do see a number of regular lines
>     following this
>      > may suggest it's just garbage in the table but not really causing
>     the
>      > issue afterall.
>
>     Assuming the above matches:
>
>     COPY public.file (fileid, fileindex, jobid, pathid, filenameid,
>     deltaseq, markid, lstat, md5)
>
>     the '????????????????????' would be for the md5 field. I'm going to say
>     that is important.
>
>
> But that would be content of the database only. The should matter for
> the application but not for a dump of the database, right?

I would think that depends on what '???????' is really representing.

In the database try:

SELECT md5 FROM public.file where fileid = 4557430888798830399;