From: lst_hoe02@kwsoft.de
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: large database: problems with pg_dump and pg_restore
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:31:47 +0200
Message-ID: <20101026213147.1040158mc9k2bgyo@webmail.kwsoft.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1PAhuU-0006Fa-DI@ns.solnet.cz>
References: <E1PAhuU-0006Fa-DI@ns.solnet.cz>
Zitat von Martin Povolny <martin.povolny@solnet.cz>:
> Hallo,
>
> I have some quite grave problems with dumping and restoring large
> databases (>4GB of
> dump).
>
> I had 5 databases, 4 dumped ok, the 5th, the largest failed dumping:
> I was unable to
> make a dump in the default 'tar' format. I got this message:
>
> pg_dump: [tar archiver] archive member too large for tar format
It looks like "tar" is limited to 4GB on your OS...
Try to use "split" to split up the dump to something which your
OS/Tools can reliable handle.
Regards
Andreas
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