On 12 March 2015 at 12:31, Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 8.4 cannot run queries on the standby, you need to upgrade to a supported/maintained version for this
> (this feature was introduced in 9.0)
>
> In 9.x you can start the slave as a "hot standby" to allow read only queries which is what pg_dump needs.
>
> You should really upgrade to a current version 9.4 or 9.3
Thought you were going to say that:-(
Well, I guess we have to do it some time, and now there is a reason
for it to happen sooner rather than later...
But even if (OK, "though") I'm doing that, Steven's suggestion of
making the dump to a ram file system, then filing it as a separate
step, looks simple enough to be worth trying as a stop-gap...
Robert.
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