Re: Upper limit for a dump file?

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Kris Kiger wrote:

> I am trying to restore a dump of two independant databases.  Each
> database is the same in table structure (there is only one table that
> consists of 5 integers, a timestamp with time zone, and a boolean).
>  Here are the number of rows:
>     DB1 - 115,539,855 rows
>     DB2 - 118,022,948 rows
>
> There are no keys/indexes/etc on the table.  The uncompressed tar file
> is 5.5GB.  I am running PG 7.4.
>
> When I try to move this data to another database (via pg_dump &
> pg_restore) it fails each time, for each database) with:
>     pg_restore: [archiver (db)] error returned by PQputline
>
> I find it highly unlikely that I have corrupted data in each database,
> since each were generated on different postgres installations on
> different machines.  I can still query the original databases (DB1 &
> DB2) with no problem.  It looks like all of the data is intact.  Any
> ideas what may be the root of the problem or how I can find out more
> about this error PQputline returned?

Perhaps the other machine has a filesystem limit forbidding such large
files? Various filesystems have historically been limited to 2GB

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Sam Barnett-Cormack
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