Re: [GENERAL] Still big problems with pg_dump!

Andrew Sullivan wrote:

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>>>How did you check?
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>>with fsck.
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>That won't help you if the controller is coming and going; you might
>find that it works one time, and not another.  Indeed, a disk on its
>way out can even pass fsck sometimes, although it's pretty unusual.
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The DB is located on a RAID5 disk array...

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>>Have backup... I can still SQL COPY to a text file, so that's no problem 
>>so far.
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>Well, that's good.  I'd suggest backing up _really often_ until you
>know what the problem is, especially since this is production.
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>>I know, I don't have much spare hardware, and the database had to work 
>>quickly, it was the
>>only solution then.
>>Checked the disk, reinstalled the OS and still waiting for a CPU and 
>>memory upgrade.
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>Do you have another place to store the database in the meantime -- an
>Intel box with a cheap disk, or anything?  At least you'd have
>another copy of the database somewhere that way.
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Don't have a disk that can store my database...


Still searching....


Cheers!

Wim