Manuel Sugawara wrote: > A friend is doing the queries right now but it takes time :-(, mean > time I was wondering if it will be safe to apply the following patch > just to get the database up and be able to run pg_dumpall: Yes, it is safe. Just make sure to get a copy of the database out in 500k transactions ... -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.