Re: Restoring a pg_dump fails with

From: Ragnar Kjørstad <postgres(at)ragnark(dot)vestdata(dot)no>
To: Reiner Dassing <dassing(at)wettzell(dot)ifag(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Restoring a pg_dump fails with
Date: 2001-04-26 16:35:49
Message-ID: 20010426183549.E26041@vestdata.no
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:35:02PM +0200, Reiner Dassing wrote:
> By upgrading von PostgreSQL 6.5.3 to 7.1.0 I restored a dump file by
> psql dbname <dbname.dump
>
> After some time I get the following message:
> ERROR: copy: line 1638280, Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc(56)
> PQendcopy: resetting connection
>
> The total number of lines is about 10 Millions!
>
> Can anybody help me or explain what to do?
> May be, I have to convert to INSERT-statements?

It's probably easier to cut the command into several smaller COPY
commands. All it takes is a small
awk/perl/python/your_favourite_scripting_language_here thing.

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Ragnar Kjørstad

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