Hi, I've stumbled on pg_dumpall problem: -- pg_dump: ERROR: could not format inet value: Address family not supported by protocol pg_dump: SQL command to dump the contents of table "elog" failed: PQendcopy() failed. pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: could not format inet value: Address family not supported by protocol pg_dump: The command was: COPY public.elog (elog_id, elog_time, elog_src, elog_userid, elog_type, elog_event, elog_trid) TO stdout; pg_dumpall: pg_dump failed on database "logs", exiting -- (elog_src column is only inet in elog table) This problem happens on warm-standby server, which is periodically started to dumpall and then goes back to PITR replication. I cannot reliably reproduce the problem (but it happends every 30 dumps or so). Rows from elog table are never updated/deleted only inserted, so whatever value might be problem it's there on next dump (which succeeds). I've also inspected partial (from failed pg_dumpall) dump files - last elog_src dumped and ones around it are normal IPv4 addresses. postgresql-8.1 (8.1.9-0etch1) on both master and PITR slave. postgres.log (start; pg_dumpall; stop) -- 2007-12-05 00:08:06 EET LOG: database system was interrupted at 2007-12-05 00:06:59 EET 2007-12-05 00:08:06 EET LOG: starting archive recovery 2007-12-05 00:08:06 EET LOG: restore_command = "cp /var/lib/postgresql/8.1/backup/wals/%f %p" cp: cannot stat `/var/lib/postgresql/8.1/backup/wals/00000001.history': No such file or directory 2007-12-05 00:08:06 EET LOG: restored log file "0000000100000019000000C9.0026A500.backup" from archive cp: cannot stat `/var/lib/postgresql/8.1/backup/wals/0000000100000019000000C9': No such file or directory 2007-12-05 00:08:06 EET LOG: checkpoint record is at 19/C926A500 2007-12-05 00:08:06 EET LOG: redo record is at 19/C926A500; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown FALSE 2007-12-05 00:08:06 EET LOG: next transaction ID: 107741973; next OID: 44375 2007-12-05 00:08:06 EET LOG: next MultiXactId: 1; next MultiXactOffset: 0 2007-12-05 00:08:06 EET LOG: automatic recovery in progress 2007-12-05 00:08:06 EET LOG: redo starts at 19/C926A550 2007-12-05 00:08:06 EET LOG: incomplete startup packet 2007-12-05 00:08:06 EET LOG: record with zero length at 19/C9287558 2007-12-05 00:08:06 EET LOG: redo done at 19/C9287528 cp: cannot stat `/var/lib/postgresql/8.1/backup/wals/0000000100000019000000C9': No such file or directory 2007-12-05 00:08:06 EET LOG: archive recovery complete 2007-12-05 00:08:06 EET LOG: database system is ready 2007-12-05 00:08:06 EET FATAL: the database system is starting up 2007-12-05 00:08:07 EET LOG: transaction ID wrap limit is 1101205518, limited by database "logs" 2007-12-05 00:08:40 EET ERROR: could not format inet value: Address family not supported by protocol 2007-12-05 00:08:40 EET LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection 2007-12-05 00:10:15 EET LOG: incomplete startup packet 2007-12-05 00:10:15 EET LOG: received fast shutdown request 2007-12-05 00:10:15 EET LOG: shutting down 2007-12-05 00:10:15 EET LOG: database system is shut down --- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/