On 2014-06-17 10:25:45 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Alban Hertroys <haramrae@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Or just connect your 9.2.4 pg_dump remotely to your 8.4 server. > > FWIW, the described behavior sounded like the dump file had gotten > truncated somewhere along the line. Maybe it's just necessary to > re-do the transfer of the existing dump file. Any chance there was windows in the mix somewhere? IIRC there were bugs with large dumps there for a while... Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services