Klint Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Maybe it's
>> dying here after having leaked a lot of memory for some other reason
>> --- try watching the pg_dump process size while it runs.

> Peak memory usage was about 540m which brought the total usage for the 
> machine to about half the physical memory allocated (3g total). 

Well, that might well explain the failure.  pg_dump does suck a lot of
schema information into memory at startup, but 540m seems excessive.
Maybe you've found a memory leak in pg_dump (it wouldn't be the first
one).  Does this database have a particularly large number of objects?

                        regards, tom lane

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