Hi Thomas, This worked for me, thanks a lot.
Regards, Meera From: Thomas Boussekey <thomas.bousse...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 5:33 PM To: Meera Nair <mn...@commvault.com> Cc: Abdul Qoyyuum <aqoyy...@cardaccess.com.au>; pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org Subject: Re: pg_dump is filling C: drive up to 100 percent External email. Inspect before opening. Hello Meera, Le mar. 19 juil. 2022 à 13:42, Meera Nair <mn...@commvault.com<mailto:mn...@commvault.com>> a écrit : Hi Abdul, We do realize that. With tar format, is there a way to customize the path used for temporary local files? Some way to configure another drive instead of using C:\? I would try this solution: https://superuser.com/a/1448861/278835<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsuperuser.com%2Fa%2F1448861%2F278835&data=05%7C01%7Cmnair%40commvault.com%7C25d823f8dd8e45dfcbd808da697ebb45%7C40ed1e38a16e46229d7c45161b6969d5%7C0%7C0%7C637938290274062926%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pbt6xRe2cpru0n%2B7kNFpiGgeAm7BzfYYjIvTWEWUD%2BY%3D&reserved=0> Regards, Meera From: Abdul Qoyyuum <aqoyy...@cardaccess.com.au<mailto:aqoyy...@cardaccess.com.au>> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 3:40 PM To: Meera Nair <mn...@commvault.com<mailto:mn...@commvault.com>> Cc: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org<mailto:pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org> Subject: Re: pg_dump is filling C: drive up to 100 percent External email. Inspect before opening. Try dumping without tar format. https://dba.stackexchange.com/a/52730<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdba.stackexchange.com%2Fa%2F52730&data=05%7C01%7Cmnair%40commvault.com%7C25d823f8dd8e45dfcbd808da697ebb45%7C40ed1e38a16e46229d7c45161b6969d5%7C0%7C0%7C637938290274062926%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wMZcngDmewkZK4uQl04IGkf9SBg4YLViVUQAjLtNN94%3D&reserved=0> On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 4:33 PM Meera Nair <mn...@commvault.com<mailto:mn...@commvault.com>> wrote: Hi team, pg_dump is filling C:\ This is for postgres version 12. Binary directory, data directory are in E:\ I'm redirecting pg_dump output also to E:\, I was taking a tar dump output. But C:\ is getting filled up . Looks like it is used for some sort of temporary staging. Is there a way not to use C:\ for this? Regards, Meera -- Abdul Qoyyuum Bin Haji Abdul Kadir HP No: +673 720 8043 HTH, Thomas
