Mirek Hankus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > after some tables are copied error occures
> pg_dump: [tar archiver] could not write to tar member (wrote 1087, > attempted 5365) > pg_dump: *** aborted because of error If you were writing on a disk file I'd say you've run out of disk space. Since you're writing to a pipe the answer isn't so obvious. Is it possible that you've run into some system-dependent limit (a ulimit setting on how much a given process can output, perhaps)? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])