While converting a mysql database into postgres, I stumbled over the following problem: | INSERT INTO a (id, fkid, displayorder, name, description, internal, mimetype, mimedata, filesize) VALUES (73,6,5, E'Seefeld.rar', E'Seefeld',0, E'application/octet-stream',decode('5261...0700', 'hex'),311484587); As the value for "filesize" suggests, this is a very large BYTEA (formerly: LONGBLOB) entry with about 300 MB. This is untypical, all other fields are about a couple of MB and don't make any problems. This very line leads to: | sfroehli@host:~$ psql dbname < statement.sql | Password: | ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size 1073741824 I have not found any configuration directive similar to mysqls "max_allowed_packet" to increase the buffer size. And besides, I don't understand, why postgres wants to allocate 1 GB to store 300 MB (which take 600 MB of ASCII text in the decode()-string). Any idea how to put this into the target database? Stefan -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general