Vishal Dixit wrote: > I modified pg_dump.c and aded a sleep of 1000 micro sec in the > loop for copying data and it fixed the problem. It looks like > for slower machines when it comes to reading larger tables, > pg_dump finds no data to read in new lines and assumes EOL while > there is still data to be dumped, as a result PQendcopy() throws > error. THROTTLE comments in pg_dump were helpful. Any thoughts. What operating system is this? It sounds broken. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073