The dump is over 3GB. So there's no question this is it. I had a
feeling this would all come down to not being on the latest version.
Thanks to both Tom and Magnus for your help.
Tom Lane wrote:
> William Garrison <postgres@mobydisk.com> writes:
>
>> I'm embarrassed to say it is 8.2.3 :( I'm not sure why they haven't
>> upgraded our production servers to the latest 8.2 yet. It's running on
>> Windows Server 2003, and it looks like there is plenty of disk space.
>>
>
> Hmm. There was an 8.2.4 bug fix for pg_dump on Windows, but the log
> message for it claimed it'd only affect dump files larger than 2GB,
> and I'm not sure whether the symptoms matched this anyway. How big
> is your dump exactly?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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