There is no way to add a temporary hard drive, or mount another drive on another machine, and then dump to that? David Ford wrote: > > Help if you would please :) > > I have a 10million+ row table and I've only got a couple hundred megs > left. I can't delete any rows, pg runs out of disk space and crashes. > I can't pg_dump w/ compressed, the output file is started, has the > schema and a bit other info comprising about 650 bytes, runs for 30 > minutes and pg runs out of disk space and crashes. My pg_dump cmd is: > "pg_dump -d -f syslog.tar.gz -F c -t syslog -Z 9 syslog". > > I want to dump this database (entire pgsql dir is just over two gigs) > and put it on another larger machine. > > I can't afford to lose this information, are there any helpful hints? > > I'll be happy to provide more information if desired. > > David > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl
