"Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I just got hoisted by my own petard when a pg_dump failed due to > statement timeout and I didn't notice because I was running the dump > nohup and didn't read the nohup.out file to see the errors. It wasn't > a big deal, the data wasn't critical operational data or anything. > But it got me to thinking that maybe pg_dump should disable > statement_timeout when it runs. You mean like this? http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2008-05/msg00026.php regards, tom lane