On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Kevin Grittner wrote:
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> I checked with out DBAs, and they are willing to test it.
>
Thanks, that's very nice!
> By they way, they found that they were getting this on a pg_dump,
> too. We will test both failure cases. If the test goes OK, we would
> be happy to leave it in production with this patch.
>
I can believe that pg_dump faces the similar situtation, i.e., running out
of kernel buffers. But seems pg_dump supports "-Z 0..9" option which uses
some external I/O functions from zlib. This part may be not easy to
"retry".
Magnus, do you want to work on this? If not, I will give it a try.
Regards,
Qingqing