COPY alloc problem in 7.4

Your name : Margus Väli
Your email address : mvali at hot.ee


System Configuration
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Architecture (example: Intel Pentium) :
i686 athlon i386, AthlonXP 1800+ with 1Gb of memory

Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) :
2.4.18-24.8.0 #1 Fri Jan 31 07:28:55 EST 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-7.4): PostgreSQL-7.4
PostgreSQL-7.4

Compiler used (example: gcc 2.95.2) :
gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)

Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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COPY command tries to create a buffer too large in size
when the file copied is larger than about 500 bytes.

ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size 1073741824


Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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copy marksona from '/tmp/marksona-aa' with delimiter '|' null as '';
Database was created with -E UNICODE, table marksona definition:

marksona_id integer NOT NULL
nextval('public.marksona_marksona_id_seq'::text)
kasikiri_id integer
sona character(30)
sona_low character(30)
liik character(15)
dummy character(3)

marksona-aa file is as follows:
1|1|Aavik, Evald|aavik, evald|Adressaat|
2|2|Aleksius|aleksius|Adressaat|
3|2| metropoliit| metropoliit|Adressaat|
4|3|Anastasjev, A.|anastasjev, a.|Adressaat|
5|4|Arbuzov, Aleksei|arbuzov, aleksei|Adressaat|
6|5|Auster, Lydia|auster, lydia|Adressaat|
7|6|NSVL Kultuuriministeeriumi|nsvl kultuuriministeeriumi|Adressaat|
8|6|Badjul, Ivan|badjul, ivan|Adressaat|
9|7|NSVL Kultuuriministeeriumi Tea|nsvl kultuuriministeeriumi
tea|Adressaat|
10|7|Baiterjakova'le, Dinora|baiterjakova'le, dinora|Adressaat|
11|8|Hetagurov'ile|hetagurov'ile|Adressaat|
12|8|Balti Sõjaväeringkonna Ülemjuh|balti sõjaväeringkonna
ülemjuh|Adressaat|
13|9|Barðtein'ile, J|barðtein'ile, j|Adressaat|
14|10|Beek'ile|beek'ile|Adressaat|
15|11|Beekman'ile, A. ja V.|beekman'ile, a. ja v.|Adressaat|
16|12|Bergvald'ile|bergvald'ile|Adressaat|
17|13|"Berliner Festtage" büroo kuns|"berliner festtage" büroo
kuns|Adressaat|
18|14|Bleive'le|bleive'le|Adressaat|
19|15|Breþnev'ile, Leonid|breþnev'ile, leonid|Adressaat|
20|16|Bush'ile, Alan|bush'ile, alan|Adressaat|
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