Moreno Andreo <moreno.andreo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > So the hint is to abandon manual COPY and let pg_dump do the hard work? If it is a newline-conversion problem, compressed pg_dump archives would be just as subject to corruption as your binary COPY file is. I'd say the hint is to be more careful about how you do the cross-machine file transfers. I suspect what is really happening is you're not always doing that the same way, and that some of the methods allow a newline conversion to happen to the file while others don't. 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