Due to its size, in the Windows environment we can't dump this database in any format except plain text, so the zlib issues don't apply here.
-Kevin >>> Qingqing Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> > 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". ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster