Re: Troubles dumping a very large table.

[Ted Allen <tallen(at)blackducksoftware(dot)com>]

600mb measured by get_octet_length on data.  If there is a better way to measure the row/cell size, please let me know because we thought it was the >1Gb problem too.  We thought we were being conservative by getting rid of the larger rows but I guess we need to get rid of even more.

Thanks,
Ted
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From: Tom Lane [tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 12:49 PM
To: Ted Allen
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Troubles dumping a very large table.

Ted Allen <tallen(at)blackducksoftware(dot)com> writes:
> during the upgrade.  The trouble is, when I dump the largest table,
> which is 1.1 Tb with indexes, I keep getting the following error at the
> same point in the dump.

> pg_dump: SQL command failed
> pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR:  invalid string enlargement
> request size 1
> pg_dump: The command was: COPY public.large_table (id, data) TO stdout;

> As you can see, the table is two columns, one column is an integer, and
> the other is bytea.   Each cell in the data column can be as large as
> 600mb (we had bigger rows as well but we thought they were the source of
> the trouble and moved them elsewhere to be dealt with separately.)

600mb measured how?  I have a feeling the problem is that the value
exceeds 1Gb when converted to text form...

                        regards, tom lane