Re: pg_dump out of memory

On 07/03/2018 08:28 PM, Andy Colson wrote:
> On 07/03/2018 10:21 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>> On 07/03/2018 07:43 PM, Andy Colson wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I moved a physical box to a VM, and set its memory to 1Gig.  Everything
>>> runs fine except one backup:
>>>
>>>
>>> /pub/backup# pg_dump -Fc -U postgres -f wildfire.backup wildfirep
>>>
>>> g_dump: Dumping the contents of table "ofrrds" failed: PQgetResult()
>>> failed.
>>> pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR:  out of memory
>>> DETAIL:  Failed on request of size 1073741823.
>>> pg_dump: The command was: COPY public.ofrrds (id, updateddate, bytes) TO
>>> stdout;
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure how to get this backup to run.  Any hints would be
>>> appreciated.
>>
>> Maybe:
>>
>> 1) Try:
>>      pg_dump -t ofrrds
>>     to dump only that table.
>>
>
> It didnt work.  I get the same error.

Well all I can think of is to give the VM more memory.

>
> Also, I'm running Slackware 14.2, and PG 9.5.11
>
> -Andy
>
>
>

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