Re: pg_dump not enough space to create a backup FreeBSD 6.1?

["Jim C. Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>]

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 02:36:45PM +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Running pg_dump on a FreeBSD 6.1 machine gives me:
> 
> [root(at)s13(dot)nedstars(dot)nl:/data/even]# pg_dump -Ft -f ./my_db-2007-5-16.backup -U user my_db
> 
>  /tmp: write failed, filesystem is full
> pg_dump: [tar archiver] could not write to tar member (wrote 0,
> attempted 86)
> 
> pg_dump: *** aborted because of error
> 
> [root(at)s13(dot)nedstars(dot)nl:/data/even]# df -h
> 
> Filesystem       Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/aacd0s1g    125G    5.8G    109G     5%    /data
> /dev/aacd0s1e    484M     86K    445M     0%    /tmp
> 
> The database is, when dumped in text format and gzipped, 40 Mb, so I
> assume that there is enough space on the /tmp drive to store the temp
> files of the pg_dump.
> 
> Is that assumption OK? Can I somehow use another partition to store the
> temporaray files without changing my /tmp mount?

tar is what's creating the temp files, not pg_dump. AFAIK it obeys the
TEMP environment variable, so changing that should make things good.
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