Tom, On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 23:48 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > "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 The 7.0 docs revealed that I needed to start up postmaster with "-N 300". I tried to get the admin of the box to do that, but it kept failing at exactly the same spot. I ended up just having the admin of the server send me a copy of the data directory, and I compiled 7.0.3 myself and it worked beautifully. Thanks a lot for your help! Brandon
