Re: Parallel pg_dump on a single database

Bob Lunney <bob_lunney@yahoo.com> writes:
> Is it possible (or smart!) to run multiple pg_dumps simulataneously on a single database, dumping different parts of
thedatabase to different files by using table and schema exclusion?  I'm attempting this and sometimes it works and
sometimeswhen I check the dump files with  
>   pg_restore -Fc <dumpfile> > /dev/null

> I get

>   pg_restore: [custom archiver] found unexpected block ID (4) when reading data -- expected 4238

That sure sounds like a bug.  What PG version are you using exactly?
Can you provide a more specific description of what you're doing,
so somebody else could reproduce this?

            regards, tom lane