Re: [GENERAL] Large database problems

All,

Problem solved. We upgraded glibc as well, but didn't recompile
readline.

Well, at least the problem's fixed.

Myles


At 09:18 PM 11/10/99 +0000, Myles Chippendale wrote:
>All,
>
>We are having a few problems with a large database in postgres 6.5.2
>under Linux 2.2.13 (upgraded from RedHat 6.0).
>
[snip - problems such as:

>    dumpClasses(): command failed.  Explanation from backend: 'unknown
>     protocol character '-' read from backend.  (The protocol character is
>     the first character the backend sends in response to a query it
>     receives).
>    '.
>
>error. Syslogd then wrote the following repeatedly to /var/log/messages:
>
>    Nov 10 18:34:53 booksdb logger: FATAL: pq_endmessage failed: errno=32
>    Nov 10 18:34:53 booksdb logger: pq_flush: send() failed: Broken pipe
>
>until I killed the postgres process used by pg_dump (it had a status of

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