> So the OS doesn't get a table over 2 gigs.  Does anyone have a table
> that dumps a flat file over 2gig's, whose OS can't support files over 2
> gigs.  Never heard of a complaint.
> 
Probably because people dump to tape or pipes, that compress the dump 
with gzip and split it with split -b ? That is what I would do with my
backups:

pg_dump | gzip --fast | split -b512m - backup.monday.gz.

Andreas


Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:21:54 +0100
Zeugswetter Andreas IZ5 <Andreas.Zeugswetter@telecom.at>
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