Steve Wampler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm getting the following error from pg_dump when trying to > dump a particular database: > ============================================================== > -> pg_dump logdb >logdb.dump > pqWait() -- connection not open > PQendcopy: resetting connection > SQL query to dump the contents of Table 'messages' did not execute correctly. After >we read all the table contents from the backend, PQendcopy() failed. Explanation >from backend: 'The Data Base System is starting up > '. > The query was: 'COPY "messages" TO stdout; > '. > ============================================================== > About 25MB has been dumped when this error occurs. (There's 15GB > free on the disk partition.) Looks like you've got corrupted data in that table (clobbered length word in some variable-length field, most likely). regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])