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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Paul M. Aoki <aoki@cs.berkeley.edu>
To: David Bigagli <david@naxos.caspur.it>
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: problems with memory
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 95 21:26:02 -0800
Message-ID: <199502070526.VAA23241@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9502051554.AA02667@naxos.caspur.it>
David Bigagli <david@naxos.caspur.it> writes:
> Installation was ok. We found problems using copy command with a ascii file
> which dimension is 89373089 bytes. After two houres the copy aborts
> with the message "FATAL 1:Feb 4 22:54:39:palloc failure: memory exhausted".
you're likely hitting process virtual memory limits (based on
available swap space). each copy command runs in one transaction and
some types of memory are only freed between transactions.
i would try splitting the file into smaller chunks and loading them
with separate copy commands.
--
Paul M. Aoki | University of California at Berkeley
aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU | Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776)
| Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
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