On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Tomas Vondra <tomas.von...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/28/2017 06:17 PM, Ted Toth wrote: >> I'm writing a migration utility to move data from non-rdbms data >> source to a postgres db. Currently I'm generating SQL INSERT >> statements involving 6 related tables for each 'thing'. With 100k or >> more 'things' to migrate I'm generating a lot of statements and when I >> try to import using psql postgres fails with 'out of memory' when >> running on a Linux VM with 4G of memory. If I break into smaller >> chunks say ~50K statements then thde import succeeds. I can change my >> migration utility to generate multiple files each with a limited >> number of INSERTs to get around this issue but maybe there's >> another/better way? >> > > The question is what exactly runs out of memory, and how did you modify > the configuration (particularly related to memory). > > regards > > -- > Tomas Vondra http://www.2ndQuadrant.com > PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
I'm pretty new to postgres so I haven't changed any configuration setting and the log is a bit hard for me to make sense of :(
psql.outofmem.log
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