Re: File size limit on pg_dumpall

On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 15:39, James Kelty wrote:
> Hmmm. Well, thanks for that. I, luckily, am not working on a needed system,
> so I am just gonna re-install the data with our custom loader. Thanks,
> though!

It looks like there's probably a 2.1GB or 4.2GB limit inside
psql.  Probably fseek?  In these days of 120GB hard disks,
should pg go to 64 bit file sizes?  No small feat, I admit...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-novice-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-novice-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Ron Johnson
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 1:44 PM
> To: PgSQL Novice ML
> Subject: Re: [NOVICE] File size limit on pg_dumpall
>
>
> On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 15:00, James Kelty wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I am upgrading from 7.1.3 to 7.2.1 (yeah!), but I ran into a problem
> (boo!).
> > I did a pg_dumpall on the database before I upgraded, per the
> instructions.
> > But, the file  was something like 5.5G. So, of course, psql -f filename
> > complains that it is too large. Any work around?
>
> COPY out some big tables, then drop them.  Then, the pg_dumpall output
> won't be so big.  Of course, you'd then have to COPY in the files and
> re-index them...

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