Hi...

I have a view across 3 tables, total some 5m rows.

I can extract parts of the view, entire rows, with a where clause 
(eg: select * from view where cell_id=100000;)

If I try to select the entire view (eg: select * from view;) it runs for a 
while then gives the error msg "Killed" and returns to the system prompt, 
having exited psql.

The log says:
2009-08-10 00:19:01 NZST ben200601 woodb LOG:  could not send data to client: 
Broken pipe
2009-08-10 00:19:48 NZST ben200601 woodb LOG:  unexpected EOF on client 
connection


I have written a script along the lines of:

get distinct cell_id from table; > file

while read cell ; do
   psql -d db -c "select * from view where cell=$cell;" >> output
done < file

This worked, & the number of lines in the output file is the same number as 
that returned by "select count(*) from view;" (which works fine), but I'd like 
to find out the cause of the error. I assume there is some sort of timeout or 
overflow occurring, but I can't see any indication of what settings I can 
change to fix this. All the underlying tables have just had vacuum analyse run 
on them.

I'm running PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on x86_64 Linux, I know it is dated, but I'm not 
in a position to upgrade at this point.


Thanks,

  Brent Wood



Brent Wood
DBA/GIS consultant
NIWA, Wellington
New Zealand
NIWA is the trading name of the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric 
Research Ltd.

-- 
Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Reply via email to