Re: upgrade database to 8.1 - 2GB file limit (pg_dump)

Many thanks, Peter and Bricklen. That worked well.

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   Husam Tomeh

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 6:46 AM
To: Tomeh, Husam
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] upgrade database to 8.1 - 2GB file limit (pg_dump)

Am Mittwoch, 30. November 2005 15:17 schrieb Tomeh, Husam:
> I'm upgrading from 8.0 to 8.1 on RedHat 2.6 kernel. I'm hitting the
file
> max limit of 2 GB file when I pg_dump my database (even if I compress
> the dump file as it gets generated using a pipe). pg_dump is the
> recommendation stated in the INSTALL doc to upgrade; what would be the
> next recommendation to upgrade the database?

Even though the 2 GB file size limit should be a thing of the past on
modern
Linux systems, if you can't figure it out, there are some tricks to
reduce
the file size listed here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/backup.html#BACKUP-DUMP-LARGE

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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