How to change temporary directory for pg_dump?
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I'm running out of space from my hard drive which has a 18GB PostgreSQL database.
When I try
pg_dump
to a different drive, PostgreSQL creates temporary files on the disk it's dumping from, so I run out of space and the dump fails. This is the command I used:
~~~sh
pg_dump -U myusername 'database' --format=tar > /anotherdrive/filetodump.tar
~~~
It eats free space the same way as with gzip.
I tried this from Stackoverflow and a small file is created in the new directory, but nothing else, and pg_dump
still writes to the original disk.
How do I change temp directory for pg_dump
?
Note: My work_mem
setting is pretty high already, I can't change that.
My db version is 9.0.13.
Asked by kissgyorgy
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Oct 29, 2013, 01:33 AM
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