Did the -Fc workaround work? I tried to do a little digging to find out
the heart of the problem but didn't come up with much. You might want to
post to -bugs, or better yet try upgrading to 7.3
Robert Treat
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 14:17, Tatiana Motova wrote:
> Version 7.2.2, i had same problems when using version 7.1.3 as well.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Treat" <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
> To: "Tatiana Motova" <t.motova@inform-link.co.uk>
> Cc: <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 7:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] pg_dump problem
>
>
> > On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 13:15, Tatiana Motova wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > i have a problem dumping the database containing blobs.
> > >
> > > The database has pdf files stored in one of the tables and when there
> > > are let say 10 files in it, pg_dump works perfectly, but when about
> > > 400Mb of files are loaded into db, pg_dump fails with the following
> > > message:
> > >
> > > pg_dump -a -b -Ft -f bdata_030321.tar -v mydb
> > > ...
> > > pg_dump: [tar archiver] could not write to tar member (wrote 872,
> > > attempted 8191)
> > >
> > > It's not a matter of available disk space, there's plenty of it.
> > >
> >
> > Haven't seen any other response on this one.... This bug used to exist
> > in the 7.1.x versions, but I think it was fixed in one of the 7.2.x
> > releases. Can you post your version info? In the meantime you might be
> > able to work around it by using the -Fc instead.
> >
> > Robert Treat