Re: pg_dump fails with socket_not_open

>>>>> "SE" == Sarah Ewen <sarah@thaum.net> writes:

SE> Hi there folks,
SE> I've just had pg_dump fail on me for the first time ever, and I'm not
SE> sure why.

SE> It generates 24MB of dump before bombing out with:

SE> pg_dump: socket not open
SE> pg_dump: SQL command to dump the contents of table "activity_log"
SE> failed: PQendcopy() failed.
SE> pg_dump: Error message from server: socket not open
SE> pg_dump: The command was: COPY public.activity_log (<bunch of columns>
SE> TO  stdout


Funny.... I just saw this for the very first time *ever* as well,
overnight.  I was dumping from a PG 8.0.1 server to PG 8.0.1 client.
I, however, saw some ethernet interface timeouts in my server logs,
which is very concerning to me.

So it probably wasn't PG's fault, but I'm not ruling anything out just
yet... i do see a bunch of socket not open errors for some reporting
clients with no corresponding ethernet timeouts, so the log
information is either conflicting or incomplete.


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