pg_dump fails with memory exhausted error

From: Jeremy Hylton <jeremy(at)cnri(dot)reston(dot)va(dot)us>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pg_dump fails with memory exhausted error
Date: 2000-04-28 14:00:43
Message-ID: 14601.38529.72722.531483@walden
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I'm having a trouble with pg_dumpall. I did a brief search of the
list archives and saw the same question asked at least two other times
in the last year, but never answered on the list.

pg_dump exits with the following error:
FATAL 1: Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc()
PQendcopy: resetting connection
SQL query to dump the contents of Table 'trace_hop_delay' did not
execute correctly. After we read all the table contents from the
backend, PQendcopy() failed. Explanation from backend: 'FATAL 1:
Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc()
'.
The query was: 'COPY "trace_hop_delay" WITH OIDS TO stdout;
'.
pg_dump failed on iperf1, exiting

The table in question is the largest in the database -- about 19
million rows of 3 ints -- and gets dumped near the end of the run. If
I execute 'COPY "trace_hop_delay" WITH OIDS TO stdout;' from psql, it
executes correctly.

Does anyone know what the cause of the problem is or how to work
around it? Is there a postgresql bug list?

Jeremy

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