From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bob Lunney <bob_lunney@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Parallel pg_dump on a single database
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:09:50 -0400
Message-ID: <2813.1309547390@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877182.59904.qm@web39704.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Bob Lunney <bob_lunney@yahoo.com> writes:
> Is it possible (or smart!) to run multiple pg_dumps simulataneously on a single database, dumping different parts of the database to different files by using table and schema exclusion? I'm attempting this and sometimes it works and sometimes when I check the dump files with
> pg_restore -Fc <dumpfile> > /dev/null
> I get
> pg_restore: [custom archiver] found unexpected block ID (4) when reading data -- expected 4238
That sure sounds like a bug. What PG version are you using exactly?
Can you provide a more specific description of what you're doing,
so somebody else could reproduce this?
regards, tom lane
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