On Oct 1, 2004, at 10:12, Tore Halset wrote:
> I am running 8.0.0-beta3 on Mac OS X 10.3.5 and 8.0.0-beta2-dev3
> (pginstaller) on windows 2000. I have two databases. The dumpfile
> (format c) for database 1 is 150MB and the dumpfile for database 2 is
> 2GB.
>
> Dumping the databases on the mac worked. I have loaded the dumpfiles
> in another database on the mac. Everything is working.
>
> Restoring the small database on the windows box is working, but the
> 2GB database will not be restored :/ The rest of this mail is about
> the 2GB database. Can it be possible that the command line utilities
> does not handle files >= 2GB? This is the output from "ls -l" on the
> mac:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 halset halset 2254827612 29 Sep 23:47 utvikling_cc.dump
I have now created a 8GB database (size of dumpfile) on windows and
successfully dumped and restored it. I still have not found a solution
to my problem, but it looks like it is not related to size.
- Tore.
>
> Running pg_dump on the windows computer to dump from the database on
> the mac over the local network leads to lots of warnings like this:
> pg_dump: [custom archiver] WARNING: ftell mismatch with expected
> position -- ftell used
> pg_dump: [custom archiver] WARNING: ftell mismatch with expected
> position -- ftell used
>
> Trying to pg_restore the created dump does not work:
> D:\Program\PostgreSQL\8.0-beta2-dev3\bin>pg_restore -U toretest -d
> utvikling_cc
> d:\temp\tore\d2
> Password:
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC:
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC Entry 1837; 0 0 COMMENT
> SCHEMA public
> postgres
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: must be
> owner of sc
> hema public
> Command was:
> COMMENT ON SCHEMA public IS 'Standard public schema';
> pg_restore: [custom archiver] error during file seek: Invalid argument
>
> I have also tried to copy the dumpfile from the mac to the windows box
> using samba. The dumpfile worked on the mac, but failed to load on the
> windows box:
>
> D:\Program\PostgreSQL\8.0-beta2-dev3\bin>pg_restore -U toretest -d
> utvikling_cc
> d:\temp\tore\utvikling_cc.dump
> Password:
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC:
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC Entry 1838; 0 0 COMMENT
> SCHEMA public
> postgres
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: must be
> owner of sc
> hema public
> Command was:
> COMMENT ON SCHEMA public IS 'Standard public schema';
> pg_restore: [custom archiver] error during file seek: Invalid argument
>
> Regards,
> - Tore.
>
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