warren little <warren.little@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I received the following error message when trying to copy a table from > one database to another on the same cluster: > pg_dump: The command was: FETCH 100 FROM _pg_dump_cursor > pg_restore: [custom archiver] could not read data block -- expected 1, > got 0 > pg_restore: *** aborted because of error You seem to have omitted the messages that would indicate what's actually wrong; the above is all just subsidiary damage after whatever caused the FETCH to fail. > The table is about 25GB in size and takes a long time to dump/restore > and I'm running out of time to get the cluster back into production. > note running: > PostgreSQL 8.1beta4 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc > (GCC) 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)" You're running a production database on a beta release?? regards, tom lane