Rafael Martinez Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We are trying to dump a 30GB+ database using pg_dump with the --file > option. In the beginning everything works fine, pg_dump runs and we get > a dumpfile. But when this file becomes 16GB it disappears from the > filesystem,
FWIW, I tried and failed to duplicate this problem on a Fedora Core 3 machine using an ext3 filesystem. I set up a dummy database that would produce an approximately 18GB text dump and did pg_dump big --file spare/big.dump Seemed to work fine. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org