Re: Problem loading pg_dump file

"Mason Hale" <masonhale@gmail.com> writes:
> Then I noticed was that our original dump file from 1 week ago was 7GB, and
> the one today was 14GB.
> We've had a lot of db activity, but I doubt our database has doubled in size
> in just one week.

> Now I'm thinking that the 7GB dump file was somehow truncated or aborted
> before it was finished. (I ran the pg_dump as a background job, and didn't
> capture the output... so there may have been an error I didn't see).

> Does this file truncation theory sound consistent with the symptoms I
> reported? Or does the 'single corrupted row of data' theory ring truer?

Hmm ... truncation would explain the weird pg_restore error, I think,
but not the problem where it seemed to be misinterpreting the first
row of COPY data.

            regards, tom lane