Apologies, I am using SAS, a statistical package/database management system. SAS has the feature of connecting to a PostgreSQL server. It does so by assigning what is called a libname (a 'library' connection telling SAS that a particular folder is a data storage). In this assignment, you specify the server address, databasename, password. I.e. SAS connects to the server and allows you to push data to/read data/manipulate data in the PSQL database.
Here is the code in SAS: # connect to the server and assign it the name 'psqlibrary' libname psqlibrary postgres server='xxx.xx.xxx.x' port=5432 user=username password='xxxxxxx' database=dbname; # then append data to the table 'table' in the psql database proc append base = psqlibrary.table data = datatoappend; run; SAS reports back error messages from the server if it receives such errors. In my case, I repeatedly get the error described above. This error is also reported in my terminal app if I log into the database at the same time to monitor things there. I.e. as far as I can tell, the error "Out of memory while reading tuples.; No query has been executed with that handle" stems from PSQL itself. SAS prefixes the error with some specific indicators such as "GLOBAL SYSDBMSG POSTGRES" or "ERROR: CLI describe error". Adrian, you are right, PSQL does receive the data. Also not sure what you mean by cursor, I really new to PSQL... sorry! Help much appreciated! 2014-12-14 10:51 GMT-05:00 Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com>: > > On 12/14/2014 07:44 AM, Andy Colson wrote: > >> On 12/13/2014 10:03 PM, wetter wetterana wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm passing rows from SAS to PostgreSQL (I assign a libname and use a >>> PROC APPEND). This works fine with smaller tables (~below 1 million >>> rows). However, as tables get larger I receive the following error >>> messages: >>> >>> >>> "ERROR: CLI describe error: Out of memory while reading tuples.; No >>> query has been executed with that handle" >>> and >>> "GLOBAL SYSDBMSG POSTGRES: Out of memory while reading tuples.; No >>> query has been executed with that handle >>> GLOBAL SYSDBRC HY000" >>> >>> I've tried to change memory settings on the PostgreSQL server, but >>> can't solve the problem. As far as I could understand—I'm new to >>> PostgreSQL ;)—it seems that PostgreSQL want to somehow read >>> information on the whole table before processing it and this behavior >>> could eventually be switched off, but I might be wrong here. >>> >>> FYI: >>> - I run SAS 9.4 on a windows machine. >>> - I run PostgreSQL server on a MAC: PostgreSQL 9.3.5 on >>> x86_64-apple-darwin12.5.0, compiled by Apple LLVM version 5.1, 64-bit >>> I've Pgadmin 1.18.1 installed. >>> >>> Any help would be much appreciated!! >>> >>> THANKS! >>> >>> >>> PS: For several reasons, I cannot use the bulkload feature in SAS for >>> this job. >>> >>> >> >> That error is coming from SAS, not PG. SAS must have pretty bad >> documentation because when I google "GLOBAL SYSDBRC HY000" there is >> pretty much nothing. (Also, I've never used, or even heard of SAS. At >> first I thought you meant serial attached scsi) >> > > SAS is statistical software: > > http://www.sas.com/en_us/home.html > > Last time I used it mainframes roamed the Earth:) > > >> Does SAS support a cursor of some kind? >> >> -Andy >> >> >> > > -- > Adrian Klaver > adrian.kla...@aklaver.com > > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general >
