Problem: Not being able to restore a database with lo. I have already read forums and doc. Probably I'm loosing something, but I just can figure. Reading forums I though I finally got a "right" way to do it. I'm running this as OS user "postgres" which is a super user pg_dump -Ft -o -b base > base.tar 2>log_err2 # If I untar the file, i see table data, and blob data, toc and restore.sql. createdb base2 //from OS shell /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_restore -Ft -s -v -d base2 base.tar 2>elogerr #creates schema psql -f src/contrib/lo.sql base2 #creates lo type and functions... my base.tar includes lo type definition. O also tried to delete the type previously, and did not make any difference. If I do not do this, pg_restore claims that I lo and oid must be explicity casted. One more thing, I can't make lo_manage to work (trigger type doesn't exist). I don use it anyway, since I manage lo updates and delete from app. I delete blobs from app. /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_restore -Ft -a -v -d base2 base.tar 2>flogerr the pg_restore fails with the following error. ---------------------------------- pg_restore log (flogerr file) pg_restore: [archiver (db)] error while updating column "tca_texto" of table "tca": server closed the connection unexpectedly This probably means the server terminated abnormally before or while processing the request. pg_restore: *** aborted because of error ---------------------------------- postgres log file DEBUG: server process (pid 25276) was terminated by signal 11 DEBUG: terminating any other active server processes NOTICE: Message from PostgreSQL backend: The Postmaster has informed me that some other backend died abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory. I have rolled back the current transaction and am going to terminate your database system connection and exit. Please reconnect to the database system and repeat your query. DEBUG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing shared memory and semaphores ---------------------------------- No table is updated. I tried to create a table with oid column instead of lo, restore (worked in this way), I renamed table, I created a table with lo datatype, but when I tried to insert into ... , same error occurs. server closed the connection unexpectedly This probably means the server terminated abnormally before or while processing the request. I have two different versions of postgres, one compiled by someone here, and another version, installed via rpm. unlikely, upgrading to a different version, is not an option, I probably update to 7.2.(last version), but only if this specific problem is solved. I have read the release section of the doc and did not apeared explicity... greetings. TIA to all "Hoy es un buen dia para morir" (today is a good day to die, Klingon en español)!