Re: [ADMIN] problem with dead 'drop table' process

2006-01-20 Thread Tom Lane
Christian Sengstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > to save the database on a filesystem basis i stopped the postgres server and > tried to tar the entire pgdata directory. this process stopped with a > "segmentation fault" during the tar process. So there's something wrong beyond just postgres ...

[ADMIN] problem with dead 'drop table' process

2006-01-20 Thread Christian Sengstock
hi, today i wanted to backup my entire database with a 'pg_dumpall'. during this i got an error message that the copy of a certain table to stderr is not possible. i don't know the exact error message right know it was something like ... "failure:  copy strside ( [columns] ) to stderr" and the dum