--- Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I can't help thinking you are looking at generalized > system > instability. Maybe someone knocked a few cables > loose while > installing new network hardware? Database server/storage instability or network instability? There is no doubt that there is something flaky about the networking between the db server and the box(es) trying to do the pg_dump. We have indeed had issues (timeouts, halts, etc) moving large quantities of data across various segments to and from these boxes...like the db server....but how would this effect something like a pg_dump? Would a good stack trace (assuming I want to crash my database again) help here? ____________________________________________________________________________________Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly