Re: Configure Postgres From SQL

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On 12 July 2010 14:50, Tom Wilcox <hungrytom(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hi Thom,
>>
>> I am performing update statements that are applied to a single table that is
>> about 96GB in size. These updates are grouped together in a single
>> transaction. This transaction runs until the machine runs out of disk space.
>>
>> What I am trying to achieve is for postgresql to complete this updating
>> transaction without running out of memory. I assume that this is happening
>> because for a Rollback to be possible, postgres must at least keep track of
>> the previous values/changes whilst the transaction is not complete and
>> committed. I figured this would be the most likely cause for us to run out
>> of disk space and therefore I would like to reconfigure postgresql not to
>> hold onto previous copies somehow.
>>
>> Any suggestions?

Is there a way to insert the data with these values already set when
you first load the db?