Are you dumping the whole database or just a single table? If it's
the former, try the latter and see if you still get errors.
If pg_dump is not working, maybe some system table is hosed. What
errors are you getting?
If you can get in via psql, log in as a superuser and execute:
COPY mytable TO 'mytable.txt';
That will dump the table data to a text file which can be re-imported
into a new database using the COPY FROM command. Basically you're
just doing part of what pg_dump does for you by hand.
-Casey
On Sep 21, 2006, at 9:19 PM, Charles Ambrose wrote:
Hi!
I encounter errors in dumping the database using pg_dump. The
database i think is corrupt. It was looking for triggers and stored
procedures that are now longer in the database. This is also the
reason why I opted to create a program to dump the database.
On 9/22/06, Michael Nolan <htfoot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: I have a table
with over 6 million rows in it that I do a dump on every night. It
takes less than 2 minutes to create a file that is around 650 MB.
Are you maybe dumping this file in 'insert' mode?
--
Mike Nolan
On 9/21/06, Charles Ambrose < jamjam360@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi!
I have a fairly large database tables (say an average of 3Million
to 4Million records). Using the pg_dump utility takes forever to
dump the database tables. As an alternative, I have created a
program that gets all the data from the table and then put it into
a text file. I was also unsuccessfull in this alternative to dump
the database.
