"Brandon Keepers" <bkeepers@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > If it makes a difference, when I un-tar the dump file from each failed > dump, it always has 2937 files in it. That's pretty consistent with the idea that you're running out of locktable space --- you'd expect that to fail at a certain number of dumped blobs. However, this makes me wonder whether you really did successfully increase max_connections as I suggested; that should have had at least some impact. 7.0 is far enough back that I don't remember exactly where one sets the maximum number of backends in that version --- better double-check the docs for 7.0. regards, tom lane