Re: pg_restore failing with "ERROR: out of memory"

From: Aaron Brown <abrown(at)bzzagent(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_restore failing with "ERROR: out of memory"
Date: 2008-03-19 19:27:00
Message-ID: C406E144.5B9F%abrown@bzzagent.com
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I agree that they ³should². Unfortunately, nothing about slony is simple,
in my experience.

On 3/19/08 3:17 PM, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Aaron Brown <abrown(at)bzzagent(dot)com> writes:
>> > Yes, it kind of needs to be data only since I am pulling from a slonized
>> > database. My experience has been if you don¹t load the schema first with a
>> > schema from slony1_extract_schema.sh, we end up with all the slony triggers
>> > and crap in the dump. If there is a better way of doing this, I¹m
>> > definitely all ears.
>
> Well, you'd need to take that up on the Slony lists, but I'd say that
> Slony definitely ought to provide a better export mechanism than forcing
> you to use a standard data-only dump. At minimum they should teach that
> script to emit two separate files: one to load before the data and one
> after. Building the indexes and FK constraints on already-loaded data
> is a heck of a lot faster.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

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