Re: could not migrate 8.0.13 database with large object data to 9.5.1

On Mar 2, 2016 06:01, "John R Pierce" <pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
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> (thread moved from pg_bugs)
> (upgrading a 8.0.13 database on Windows XP 32bit to 9.5.1 on Windows 8 64 bit.....)
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> On 3/1/2016 8:05 PM, Premsun Choltanwanich wrote:
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>> Modified command by remove -Ft flag as per you suggestion:
>> pg_dump -v -h 192.168.200.75 -U clubadmin -d clubprogram | psql -U clubadmin -d clubprogram
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>> Result (got same message even with parameter -b or not):
>> pg_dump: reading rewrite rules
>> pg_dump: reading policies
>> pg_dump: reading large objects
>> ...
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>> pg_dump: creating FUNCTION "public.plpgsql_call_handler()"
>> pg_dump: creating FUNCTION "public.plpgsql_validator(oid)"
>> ...
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>> pg_dump: creating FUNCTION "public.pg_file_write(text, text, boolean)"
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> those all sound like standard postgres functions, its not clear to me why pg_dump is generating the CREATE FUNCTION code for them.
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>> pg_dump: [archiver] could not write to output file: Invalid argument
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> ok, presumably your new box has plenty of disk space? try this on the new 9.5 system...
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How large is the total database? The earliest versions of pg on Windows had bugs in pg_dump for files larger than 2GB. I don't recall exactly when they were fixed, but this was a long time ago.. Through if my memory is correct the actual bugs were in pg_dump itself, so using a new pg_dump against the old server should be safe.

/Magnus