Adam Witney <awitney(at)sgul(dot)ac(dot)uk> writes:
> pg_dump: ERROR: unexpected chunk number 5153 (expected 21) for toast value
> 245334402
> measured_bioassay_base is always inserted at the same time as mba_data_base
> (the table where I had the problem before) and it has a text field which is
> very large..
How large is "very large" ... on the order of 10Mb? If so I'd say this
is the same problem as we saw in your table --- a lot of consecutive
rows have gone missing. You could examine the toast table to confirm
or deny this.
regards, tom lane