----- Original Message ---- > From: Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> [ COPY fails to dump a 138MB bytea column ] > I wonder whether you are doing anything that exacerbates > the memory requirement, for instance by forcing an encoding conversion to > something other than the database's server_encoding. Our backups are done with the "-F c" (in addition to the normal user/host/port options). As far as I know that shouldn't be triggering any type conversions (which is UTF8 all-around). If you still think that might be the case, is there a way to force it _not_ to do the conversion? The restores are done using the same option. We've recently hit a similar problem where restoring a backup fails with the same type of out-of-memory error. Backing up that database works fine however, as does reading all data from it. __________________________________________________________________ Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general