Re: Re out of memory error with large insert

What are the recommended ulimit settings. A single postgres connection
that does an insert(with no other database activity) of say 6 million
rows into a 15 column table (all integer columns) cannot complete due to
an out of memory error

This happens on a 4Gb Linux box with shmmax set to 1gb and about 50000
shared_buffers

I would really appreciate any help ...

Thanks

Sriram

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 7:24 PM
To: Sriram Dandapani
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Re out of memory error with large insert

"Sriram Dandapani" <sdandapani(at)counterpane(dot)com> writes:
> Why doesn't Postgres use swap in this situation

Perhaps you need to adjust the ulimit settings that the postmaster is
started under.

regards, tom lane