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 -- Sam Barnett-Cormack Software Developer | Student of Physics & Maths UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk) | Lancaster University ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
