On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ted Allen <tallen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> 600mb measured by get_octet_length on data. If there is a better way to measure the row/cell size, please let me know because we thought it was the >1Gb problem too. We thought we were being conservative by getting rid of the larger rows but I guess we need to get rid of even more. > > Yeah, the average expansion of bytea data in COPY format is about 3X :-( > So you need to get the max row length down to around 300mb. I'm curious > how you got the data in to start with --- were the values assembled on > the server side? Wouldn't binary style COPY be more forgiving in this regard? (if so, the OP might have better luck running COPY BINARY)... This also goes for libpq traffic..large (>1mb) bytea definately want to be passed using the binary switch in the protocol. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
