Re: COPY FROM : out of memory

From: Terry Fielder <terry(at)ashtonwoodshomes(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Arnaud Lesauvage <thewild(at)freesurf(dot)fr>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: COPY FROM : out of memory
Date: 2006-11-23 16:50:58
Message-ID: 4565D172.5070603@ashtonwoodshomes.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Arnaud Lesauvage <thewild(at)freesurf(dot)fr> writes:
>
>> When trying to import a 20M rows csv file into PostgreSQL, I
>> get :
>>
>
>
>> ERROR: out of memory
>> État SQL :53200
>> Détail :Failed on request of size 1073741823.
>> Contexte : COPY tmp, line 1
>>
>
> Can you put together a self-contained example? The reference to "line
> 1" suggests that you wouldn't need the whole 20M row file, just the
> first few rows ...
>
Unless its not seeing the end of the first record AS the end of the
first record, and hence seeing the whole file as 1 record.

Terry

> regards, tom lane
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