Re: [ADMIN] Copy Command out of memory

2005-12-15 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 06:18:07PM -0500, Kevin Keith wrote: > Or can a transaction be bypassed altogether with the COPY command since > any failure (the load is going to an empty table) could easily be solved > with a reload of the data anyway. Work along those lines is currently in-progress.

Re: [ADMIN] Copy Command out of memory

2005-12-14 Thread Tom Lane
Kevin Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was trying to run a bulk data load using the COPY command on PGSQL 8.1.0. > After loading about 3,500,000 records it ran out of memory - I am > assuming because it ran out of space to store such a large transaction. COPY per se shouldn't eat memory. P

[ADMIN] Copy Command out of memory

2005-12-14 Thread Kevin Keith
I was trying to run a bulk data load using the COPY command on PGSQL 8.1.0. After loading about 3,500,000 records it ran out of memory - I am assuming because it ran out of space to store such a large transaction. Does the COPY command offer a similar feature to Oracle's SQL*Loader where you c