Klint Gore <kgore4@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Maybe you've found a memory leak in pg_dump (it wouldn't be the first >> one). Does this database have a particularly large number of objects? > I wouldn't call it large - 27 tables, 111 functions, 21 custom types > (used for set returning function results). [ squint... ] Hard to see how that could be eating half a gig of pg_dump memory space. Would you be willing to send me a "pg_dump -s" (ie, just schema no data) dump of this DB? Off-list of course. regards, tom lane