"Carlos Oliva" <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > We are getting the following error message whe we run "pg_dump -Ft <database > name> > database.tar": > pg_dump: ERROR: canceling query due to user request This implies that something sent SIGINT to the backend process. We've heard some reports that suggest that some platforms send SIGINT when a soft resource consumption limit is hit (too much process runtime or I/O or something). Look around for something of that description, particularly if the limit settings were changed recently. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings