Re: pg_dump crashing

Hello,

sorry for the late response.

> On 15 Mar 2016, at 18:59, rob stone <floriparob@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm running Debian 4.3.5-1 (2016-02-06) x86_64 GNU/Linux.
>
> Backups are done via a shell script using double hyphen syntax, as in
> e.g.:-
>
> pg_dump --port=5433 --dbname=mydatabase_1_0_0 --username=mmppostgres
>  --file=/my_backup_path/mydatabase_1_0_0.dump
>
> We do it twice. First with --data_only and the second time with
>  --format=custom
>
> Hasn't failed yet. Don't know if this helps at all but worth a try.

Thank you for your answer. But sorry, no, this does not change anything. Same server crash when executed in a cron job.
Itruns perfectly when executed manually from the shell. 

Best regards

Matthias Schmitt

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