Re: [ADMIN] out of memory error with large insert

2006-03-21 Thread Sriram Dandapani
esday, March 21, 2006 2:38 PM To: Sriram Dandapani Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] out of memory error with large insert "Sriram Dandapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On a large transaction involving an insert of 8 million rows, after a > while Post

Re: [ADMIN] out of memory error with large insert

2006-03-21 Thread Tom Lane
"Sriram Dandapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On a large transaction involving an insert of 8 million rows, after a > while Postgres complains of an out of memory error. If there are foreign-key checks involved, try dropping those constraints and re-creating them afterwards. Probably faster th

[ADMIN] out of memory error with large insert

2006-03-21 Thread Sriram Dandapani
Hi   On a large transaction involving an insert of 8 million rows, after a while Postgres complains of an out of memory error.   Failed on request of size 32   I get no other message.   Shmmax is set to 1 Gb Shared_buffers set to 5   Max memory on box is 4Gb..Postgres is the