X-Original-To: pgsql-admin-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1ACBD1B982 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:12:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 93933-04 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:12:07 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail2.bluewin.ch (mail2.bluewin.ch [195.186.4.73]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5B3AD1B901 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:12:05 -0400 (AST) Received: from bluewin.ch (62.203.217.24) by mail2.bluewin.ch (Bluewin AG 7.0.024) id 4018084A004D5506; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:12:03 +0000 Message-ID: <403A4271.8090003@bluewin.ch> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 19:12:01 +0100 From: Oli Sennhauser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, de-ch MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Leszek.Dukwicz@brebank.com.pl Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: FW: FW: References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200402/333 X-Sequence-Number: 12507 We normaly did an dump in a pipe then a compress into a second pipe and then a split (in oracle). But in my opinion it also should work with pg? Roughly: mknod my_pipe1 p mknod my_pipe2 p nohup compress < my_pipe1 > my_pipe2 & nohup split -m 2000 < my_pipe1 & nohup pg_dump > my_pipe1 & But please try it out before doing it on a productive system!!! Especially the restore. Regards Oli Leszek.Dukwicz@brebank.com.pl wrote: > -----Original Message----- > *From:* Dukwicz, Leszek, (BRE/DIN) > *Sent:* Monday, February 23, 2004 8:26 AM > *To:* 'pgsql-admin@postgresql.org' > *Subject:* > *Importance:* High > > Hi, > > We are running Postgresql 7.3.4. Does anyone know how to make pg_dump > write > > dumps larger than 2 GB?? Compilation with D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 gave > > no results... > > Sorry previous mail did not contain O/S info: it's UnixWare 7.1.1 and > 7.1.3 > > Thanks in advance > > Leszek Dukwicz > -- ------------------------------------------------------- Haben Sie Ihre Firma schon im FOSS-Directory (www.foss-directory.ch) eingetragen? Oli Sennhauser Database-Engineer (Oracle & PostgreSQL) Rebenweg 6 CH - 8610 Uster / Switzerland Phone (+41) 1 940 24 82 e-Mail oli.sennhauser@bluewin.ch Website http://mypage.bluewin.ch/shinguz/PostgreSQL/