Re: parallel dump fails to dump large tables

On 14/02/2015 15:42, Shanker Singh wrote:
> Hi,
> I am having problem using parallel pg_dump feature in postgres release
> 9.4. The size of the table is large(54GB). The dump fails with the
> error: "pg_dump: [parallel archiver] a worker process died
> unexpectedly". After this error the pg_dump aborts. The error log file
> gets the following message:
>
> 2015-02-09 15:22:04 PST [8636]: [2-1] user=pdroot,db=iii,appname=pg_dump
> STATEMENT:  COPY iiirecord.varfield (id, field_type_tag, marc_tag,
> marc_ind1, marc_ind2, field_content, field_group_id, occ_num, record_id)
> TO stdout;
> 2015-02-09 15:22:04 PST [8636]: [3-1] user=pdroot,db=iii,appname=pg_dump
> FATAL:  connection to client lost

There's your problem - something went wrong with the network.

Ray.


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