"Raymond O'Donnell" <rod@xxxxxx> writes: > On 14/02/2015 15:42, Shanker Singh wrote: >> Hi, >> I am having problem using parallel pg_dump feature in postgres release >> 9.4. The size of the table is large(54GB). The dump fails with the >> error: "pg_dump: [parallel archiver] a worker process died >> unexpectedly". After this error the pg_dump aborts. The error log file >> gets the following message: >> >> 2015-02-09 15:22:04 PST [8636]: [2-1] user=pdroot,db=iii,appname=pg_dump >> STATEMENT: COPY iiirecord.varfield (id, field_type_tag, marc_tag, >> marc_ind1, marc_ind2, field_content, field_group_id, occ_num, record_id) >> TO stdout; >> 2015-02-09 15:22:04 PST [8636]: [3-1] user=pdroot,db=iii,appname=pg_dump >> FATAL: connection to client lost > There's your problem - something went wrong with the network. I'm wondering about SSL renegotiation failures as a possible cause of the disconnect --- that would explain why it only happens on large tables. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general