From: Tomasz Myrta <jasiek@klaster.net>
To: Rudi Starcevic <rudi@oasis.net.au>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: pg_dump problem
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 12:34:49 +0100
Message-ID: <3E12D259.8020300@klaster.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E264CE2.70306@oasis.net.au>
References: <3E264CE2.70306@oasis.net.au>
Rudi Starcevic wrote:
>Hi,
>
>After doing a pg_dump on a database I'm unable to access the file.
>
>My command is simply 'mv' ::
>
>mv camper.dump20020116 camper_bak/
>
>The error I get is ::
>
>mv: camper.dump20020116: Value too large for defined data type
>
>Strange. It seems to be saying the file I created is too large to handle.
>Do you know where I've gone wrong ?
>I just want to dump one of my databases, move it to a back up dir. then
>make changes to the running database.
It looks like you have not a postgres, but filesystem problem. How big is this file?
Anyway pg_dump can save filedump in gzip format, which is better for further backuping.
Regards,
Tomasz Myrta
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