Sebastián Baioni wrote:
> Every day we run a Windows Programmed pg_dump, it used to
> work fine with PostgreSQL 8.0, but since we installed the new
> version we are not able to make a backup. We tried to make a
> whole database backup and it never ends. We tried to backup
> table by table and it reachs a table of 50,000 rows and it
> keeps for hours in that table, we started it again and
> pg_dump backups that same table in seconds, but it stops in
> another different table.
> If we watch the server message.# we don't have any error,
> it's like some tables were locked and pg_dump would keep
> waiting for the table to be unlocked.
If pg_dump is locked out, there should be entries in
pg_catalog.pg_locks. Check when the dump hangs!
Does the dump file keep growing or not?
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
