Ted Allen <tallen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > during the upgrade. The trouble is, when I dump the largest table, > which is 1.1 Tb with indexes, I keep getting the following error at the > same point in the dump. > pg_dump: SQL command failed > pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: invalid string enlargement > request size 1 > pg_dump: The command was: COPY public.large_table (id, data) TO stdout; > As you can see, the table is two columns, one column is an integer, and > the other is bytea. Each cell in the data column can be as large as > 600mb (we had bigger rows as well but we thought they were the source of > the trouble and moved them elsewhere to be dealt with separately.) 600mb measured how? I have a feeling the problem is that the value exceeds 1Gb when converted to text form... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance