Thread: Error in restoring a large object

Chris McCormick <mccormick1@gmail.com> writes:
>    I am testing a backup and restore of a db in version 7.4.30. During the
> restore, after successfully restoring many BLOBS, I get the following error:

How many is "many"?

> pg_restore: restoring large object OID 318907
> pg_restore: restoring large object OID 318909
> pg_restore: restoring large object OID 318911
> pg_restore: [archiver] could not write to large object (result: 4294967295,
> expected: 32768)
> pg_restore: *** aborted because of error

>    What does it mean that the archiver "could not write" to the large
> object? How can I find out more information about the object in question
> (and possibly delete it)?

Try looking into the postmaster log to see if there's any corresponding
failure logged on the server side.

            regards, tom lane