out of memory error on a delete command

From: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
To: Postgres JDBC <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: out of memory error on a delete command
Date: 2005-07-12 10:43:23
Message-ID: 1121165003.3085.165.camel@coppola.muc.ecircle.de
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Hi all,

I wonder what could cause such an exception (see below). I was executing
a "DELETE FROM table_name" command on a table with a lot of records (~
80 million). Now after the fact I realize I should have tried it in psql
too to see if it fails there too, but I truncated the tables in the
meantime via "TRUNCATE". The only reason I tried to do it via delete is
to see how many rows were deleted, but it looks like a bad idea...

Any enlightening thoughts ?

Cheers,
Csaba.

The (partial) stack trace:

org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: out of memory
at
org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.receiveErrorResponse(QueryExecutorImpl.java:1471)
at
org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.processResults(QueryExecutorImpl.java:1256)
at
org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.execute(QueryExecutorImpl.java:175)
at
org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement.execute(AbstractJdbc2Statement.java:389)
at
org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement.executeWithFlags(AbstractJdbc2Statement.java:314)
at
org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement.executeUpdate(AbstractJdbc2Statement.java:264)
[... our classes follow]

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