Re: Error message using pg_dump with tar format

Have u checked the disk space remaining already ?


Regds
Mallah.

On Monday 07 Jul 2003 10:00 pm, Nick Fankhauser - Doxpop wrote:
> Hi-
>
> I'm getting the following error message:
>
> pg_dump: [tar archiver] could not write to tar member (wrote 39, attempted
> 166)
>
> Here are the particulars:
>
> -I'm running this command: "pg_dump -Ft prod | prod.dump.tar" (The database
> is named prod)
>
> -The dump gets about 1/4 of the way through, and then gives me the error
> message and stops.
>
> -I'm running PostgreSQL version 7.3.2.
>
> -There is plenty of disk space available.
>
> -The same command on the same database and server with same specs worked
> last week when I was on V7.2.1.
>
> -Since upgrading, more data has been added, but the structure of the
> database is unchanged.
>
> -Using the -v switch shows me that it always quits on the same table, but
> otherwise adds no new information.
>
> -The part of the error message in parentheses changes on each run. For
> instance, on the last run, I got  "(wrote 64, attempted 174)" The rest of
> the message remains consistent.
>
> -The table it quits on is fairly large- about 2.6GB. It is both "wide"
> because it contains a text field that is usually a few sentences of text,
> and "long", containing 9,137,808 records. This is also the only table in
> our database that is split into multiple files.
>
> -A text dump using this command works fine: "pg_dump prod > prod.dump.text"
>
> I found a reference to this message in the admin list archives on
> 3/28/2003, but it was in the context of a database containing large blobs
> (mine has no blobs), and the suggestion was to upgrade to 7.3. I couldn't
> find a resolution in that thread, so I'm not sure if it ever got worked
> out.
>
> Any thoughts??
>
> Thanks!
>    -Nick
>
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