On 12 Jan 2001, at 10:51, hedy Xu wrote: > We are using the postgres7 against Linux. We got a pg_dump error when tired > to backup a database using pg_dump. The error message is “PQgetvalue: ERROR! > tuple number 0 is out of range 0..-1 Segmentation fault“. We could dump this > database when it was created. Our database server can’t be shut down after > it goes to live, so we can’t use file system backup. Please help me resolve > this problem. I had this problem yesterday. Before attempting the dump, I had renamed several tables and created new ones in their place. Then copied from the renamed tables to the new tables. Then I tried the dump, which failed. Then I removed the renamed tables. Then the dump worked. Hope that helps. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ NZ Broadband - http://unixathome.org/broadband/
