Many thanks, Tom and Tino. Tena Sakai [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 9/12/2007 7:20 AM To: Tino Schwarze Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Tena Sakai Subject: Re: [ADMIN] out of memory Tino Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:15:56PM -0700, Tena Sakai wrote: >> But there's a problem, for which I hope you have >> more wisdom. The reason why I tried that query >> is because someone tried the same thing via odbc >> from pc quering postgres database and got the >> same error ("out of memory"). >> >> What can a pc user do? Anything? > Tell the user that he/she should use an appropiate WHERE clause. You > might also consider adding more swap to the machine. Then it will go > horribly slow, but it will work. Or turn the query into a cursor so you can FETCH a reasonable number of rows at a time. regards, tom lane
