Re: pg_dump large-file support > 16GB

Would it help to use a different filesystem like SGI's XFS ? Would it be
possible to even implement that at you site at this stage ?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Rafael Martinez Guerrero <r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no> writes:
>
>>We are trying to dump a 30GB+ database using pg_dump with the --file
>>option. In the beginning everything works fine, pg_dump runs and we get
>>a dumpfile. But when this file becomes 16GB it disappears from the
>>filesystem, pg_dump continues working without giving an error until it
>>finnish (even when the file does not exist)(The filesystem has free
>>space).
>
>
> Is that a plain text, tar, or custom dump (-Ft or -Fc)?  Is the behavior
> different if you just write to stdout instead of using --file?
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
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