Kasia Tuszynska <ktuszynska@xxxxxxxx> writes: > PG: 8.3.8 > 2010-08-18 20:29:42 PDT ERROR: out of memory > 2010-08-18 20:29:42 PDT DETAIL: Failed on request of size 134217728. What command is this failure occurring in? There aren't that many that would try to inhale your full work_mem in one gulp like that. The short answer here is probably that 32-bit Windows is not the platform to be trying to do memory-intensive work on, and you ought to get yourself a real operating system and/or a 64-bit machine. You could make it run within Windows' restrictions by cutting work_mem, maintenance_work_mem, and/or shared_buffers, but given that it's already taking a ridiculously long time, that doesn't seem like a path to a solution. Alternatively, you might be able to optimize the data load process a bit. Have you read http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/populate.html ? I'm suspicious in particular that you might be trying to enforce foreign keys incrementally, which is usually a bad approach for large data loads. Also, I'd advise rethinking the choice of PG 8.3.x if possible. There are relevant performance improvements in 8.4.x. > Client: In house application, I checked to see if it is not doing anything silly, it seems to be doing everything as expected, indexes are created after a table has loaded, we commit every 1000 inserts... Committing after every few inserts is *not* an optimization for Postgres. Try kicking that number up a few orders of magnitude. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
