On 04/15/2011 01:15 PM, Edison So wrote:
> I have a DELL server running Windows server 2003 and Postgres 8.1.
> I used pg_dump to back up a database test:
> pg_dump -v -h localhost -p 5432 -U postgres -F c -b -f
> "D:/db_dump/backup.bak" test
> The backup was showing the following error.
> .
> pg_dump: dumping contents of table history
> pg_dump: [custom archiver] WARNING: ftell mismatch with expected
> position -- ftell used
>
> pg_dump: dumping contents of table history_archive
>
> pg_dump: [custom archiver] WARNING: ftell mismatch with expected
> position -- ftell used
>
> pg_dump: dumping contents of table historymetadata
>
> pg_dump: [custom archiver] WARNING: ftell mismatch with expected
> position -- ftell used
> I was trying to do a Posgres 8.1.4 backup and restored it to Postgres
> 9.0 on a new Dell server running Windows server 2008.
> Any clue how to resolve it?
My guess related to this:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-08/msg00373.php
Try using the Postgres 9.0 version of pg_dump to take the dump of the
8.1 server.
> Edison
>
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> Edison
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