Sorry, forgot the error message. Basically we tried to restore a db and the following error message occurred: pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size 1836016426 On 8/11/05, Howard Kao <fatearthling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > We have a big database, around 1.2GB, and want to back it up. We used > pg_dump with --blobs for large objects. However, the process cannot > be completed and threw an error. Can anyone please elaborate on the > --blobs, or backing up for large databases? Judging from the > description of -b/--blobs we suspect that it has something to do with > some fields being text. If anyone has some insight on this help would > be much appreciated. Thanks. > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org