Re: Problems with pg_dump

Stefan Holzheu <stefan.holzheu@bitoek.uni-bayreuth.de> writes:
> Two weeks ago we did an upgrade from postgresql 7.3.2 to 7.4.1.
> No we have the problem that pg_dump does not finish. We get the
> following error message:

> pg_dump: lost synchronization with server: got message type "5", length
> 842281016
> pg_dump: SQL command to dump the contents of table "aggr_stddev_hour"
> failed:

That's interesting.  What are the column data types in that table?  What
character set encoding are you using?  Can you do a dump if you select
the dump-data-as-INSERT-commands option?

> The database size is about 10 GB.

How big is the particular table?

            regards, tom lane