On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Tomas Vondra <t...@fuzzy.cz> wrote: > Dne 25.4.2011 19:31, Alban Hertroys napsal(a): >> On 25 Apr 2011, at 18:16, Phoenix Kiula wrote: >> >>> If I COPY each individual file back into the table, it works. Slowly, >>> but seems to work. I tried to combine all the files into one go, then >>> truncate the table, and pull it all in in one go (130 million rows or >>> so) but this time it gave the same error. However, it pointed out a >>> specific row where the problem was: >>> >>> >>> COPY links, line 15272357: >>> "16426447 9s2q7 9s2q7 N >>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?camp=1789&creative=9325&ie=UTF8&i..."; >>> server closed the connection unexpectedly >>> This probably means the server terminated abnormally >>> before or while processing the request. >>> The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed. >>> >>> >>> Is this any use at all? Would appreciate any pointers! >> >> >> I didn't follow the entire thread, so maybe someone mentioned this already, >> but... >> Usually if we see error messages like those it turns out the OS is killing >> the postgres process with it's equivalent of a low-on-memory-killer. I know >> Linux's got such a beast, and that you can turn it off. >> >> It's a frequently recurring issue on this list, there's bound to be some >> pointers in the archives ;) > > Not sure if this COPY failure is caused by the same issue as before, but > the original issue was caused by this > > pg_dump: SQL command failed > pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: invalid memory alloc > request size 4294967293 > pg_dump: The command was: COPY public.links (id, link_id, alias, > aliasentered, url, user_known, user_id, url_encrypted, title, private, > private_key, status, create_date, modify_date, disable_in_statistics, > user_running_id, url_host_long) TO stdout; > pg_dumpall: pg_dump failed on database "snipurl", exiting > > i.e. a bad memory alloc request (with negative size). That does not seem > like an OOM killing the backend.
Most likely you're right. I did a COPY FROM and populated the entire table. In my hard disk, the space consumption went up by 64GB. Yet, when I do a "SELECT * FROM mytable LIMIT 1" the entire DB crashes. There is no visible record. What's this? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
