[GENERAL] getting around 'out of memory' errors

2006-08-24 Thread Rajarshi Guha
Hi, I've recently been using PostgreSQL and am having some trouble performing an insert. My situation is this: I have a table, A with 15 fields, out of which I am interested in 2 fields, a and b. The table has 8,000,000 rows I have another table, B, which has 3 fields a, c, and d. The field a

Re: [GENERAL] getting around 'out of memory' errors

2006-08-24 Thread Tom Lane
Rajarshi Guha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a table, A with 15 fields, out of which I am interested in 2 fields, a and b. The table has 8,000,000 rows I have another table, B, which has 3 fields a, c, and d. The field a references field a in table A. Table B is empty at this point. I

Re: [GENERAL] getting around 'out of memory' errors

2006-08-24 Thread Rajarshi Guha
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 10:50 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Rajarshi Guha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a table, A with 15 fields, out of which I am interested in 2 fields, a and b. The table has 8,000,000 rows I have another table, B, which has 3 fields a, c, and d. The field a references

Re: [GENERAL] getting around 'out of memory' errors

2006-08-24 Thread Tom Lane
Rajarshi Guha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 10:50 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: I think you are getting burnt by the list of pending trigger actions to check the foreign-key references in B. Thanks for the pointer. I've dropped the constraint and am now running the INSERT.

Re: [GENERAL] getting around 'out of memory' errors

2006-08-24 Thread Rajarshi Guha
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 14:12 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Rajarshi Guha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 10:50 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: I think you are getting burnt by the list of pending trigger actions to check the foreign-key references in B. Thanks for the pointer. I've