I am going to restore a 6 Gb database in my development machine which is running on Centos 5.6 with memory 1 GB. During restoration I got error as follows:
LOG: checkpoints are occurring too frequently (22 seconds apart) HINT: Consider increasing the configuration parameter "checkpoint_segments". pg_restore: out of memory pg_restore: finished item 8570 TABLE DATA entity pg_restore: [archiver] worker process failed: exit code 1 [postgres@rumman data]$ ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "U" CONTEXT: COPY entity, line 2120568, column version: "U" STATEMENT: COPY entity (crmid, smcreatorid, smownerid, modifiedby, setype, description, createdtime, modifiedtime, viewedtime, status, version, presence, deleted, owner_type) FROM stdin; LOG: could not send data to client: Broken pipe STATEMENT: COPY entity (crmid, smcreatorid, smownerid, modifiedby, setype, description, createdtime, modifiedtime, viewedtime, status, version, presence, deleted, owner_type) FROM stdin; The table entity has 2164182 rows. And description as - \d entity Table "public.entity" Column | Type | Modifiers --------------+-----------------------------+------------------------------ crmid | integer | not null smcreatorid | integer | not null default 0 smownerid | integer | not null default 0 modifiedby | integer | not null default 0 setype | character varying(30) | not null description | text | createdtime | timestamp without time zone | not null modifiedtime | timestamp without time zone | not null viewedtime | timestamp without time zone | status | character varying(50) | version | integer | not null default 0 presence | integer | default 1 deleted | integer | not null default 0 owner_type | character(1) | not null default 'U'::bpchar Indexes: "entity_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (crmid) "entity_createdtime_idx" btree (createdtime) "entity_modifiedby_idx" btree (modifiedby) "entity_modifiedtime_idx" btree (modifiedtime) "entity_setype_idx" btree (setype) WHERE deleted = 0 "entity_smcreatorid_idx" btree (smcreatorid) "entity_smownerid_idx" btree (smownerid) "ftx_enentity_description" gin (to_tsvector('en'::regconfig, for_fts(description))) "entity_deleted_idx" btree (deleted) Referenced by: TABLE "service" CONSTRAINT "fk_1_service" FOREIGN KEY (serviceid) REFERENCES entity(crmid) ON DELETE CASCADE TABLE "servicecontracts" CONSTRAINT "fk_1_servicecontracts" FOREIGN KEY (servicecontractsid) REFERENCES entity(crmid) ON DELETE CASCADE TABLE "cc2entity" CONSTRAINT "fk_cc2entityentity" FOREIGN KEY (crm_id) REFERENCES entity(crmid) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE TABLE "emails_optout_history" CONSTRAINT "fk_emails_optout_historyid" FOREIGN KEY (crmid) REFERENCES entity(crmid) ON DELETE CASCADE TABLE "emails_optout_history" CONSTRAINT "fk_emails_optout_history_emailid" FOREIGN KEY (emailid) REFERENCES entity(crmid) ON DELETE CASCADE I set postgresql.conf as - shared_memory = 128 MB maintenance_work_mem = 300 MB checkpoint_segment = 10 # as the disk space is limited fsync=off autocommit=off The backup was takes at Postgresql 9.2.3 and I am going to restore at Postrgesql 9.2.1. During error my OS status: free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1024 975 48 0 3 857 -/+ buffers/cache: 114 909 Swap: 1027 0 1027 Please let me know what could be the actual cause of the error. Thanks.