Stefan Holzheu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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