Dave Steinberg <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> You're not using the same PG connection from two different threads, or >> fork()ing and trying to use the same connection in the parent and the >> child, or anything like that? > > Aha! In the ruby code, I am forking! I'll make the child reconnect > and see if that helps (I am almost sure this will fix it). This one I > should have guessed - I dealt with similar stuff in perl somewhat > recently. Yay! I thought it might be something like that. > The pg_dumpall problem... I'll crank the debug level and see if > there's anything interesting there, and if so I'll post about it again. You could also, if you have to, run the BSD equivalent of 'strace' (ktrace?) against the backend that pg_dump is connected to, and see what might be going on. 'strace' is the gun I pull out when logfiles aren't working for me. :) -Doug
