Re: Error: "Out of memory while reading tuples." in pushing table from SAS to PostgreSQL on Mac

On 12/13/2014 10:03 PM, wetter wetterana wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm passing rows from SAS to PostgreSQL (I assign a libname and use a PROC APPEND). This works fine with smaller tables (~below 1 million rows). However, as tables get larger I receive the following error messages:
>
>
> "ERROR: CLI describe error: Out of memory while reading tuples.; No query has been executed with that handle"
> and
> "GLOBAL SYSDBMSG POSTGRES: Out of memory while reading tuples.; No query has been executed with that handle
> GLOBAL SYSDBRC HY000"
>
> I've tried to change memory settings on the PostgreSQL server, but can't solve the problem. As far as I could understand—I'm new to PostgreSQL ;)—it seems that PostgreSQL want to somehow read information on the whole table before processing it and this behavior could eventually be switched off, but I might be wrong here.
>
> FYI:
> - I run SAS 9.4 on a windows machine.
> - I run PostgreSQL server on a MAC: PostgreSQL 9.3.5 on x86_64-apple-darwin12.5.0, compiled by Apple LLVM version 5.1, 64-bit
> I've Pgadmin 1.18.1 installed.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!!
>
> THANKS!
>
>
> PS: For several reasons, I cannot use the bulkload feature in SAS for this job.
>

That error is coming from SAS, not PG. SAS must have pretty bad documentation because when I google "GLOBAL SYSDBRC HY000" there is pretty much nothing. (Also, I've never used, or even heard of SAS. At first I thought you meant serial attached scsi)

Does SAS support a cursor of some kind?

-Andy