-----Original Message-----
From: Sriram Dandapani 
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 4:01 PM
To: 'Tom Lane'
Subject: RE: [ADMIN] out of memory error with large insert 

Upon monitoring with top, the insert statement process keeps eating up
memory until there is nothing left on the linux box

Why doesn't Postgres use swap in this situation

Can we control this behavior thru postgresconf.sql


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, 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 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 than retail checks
anyway ...

                        regards, tom lane

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