On Sun, 2017-12-03 at 23:18 +0000, Yuri Budilov wrote: > Posted on Stack Overflow, sadly no replies, so trying here.... > > CREATE TABLE X AS > SELECT json_array_elements(json_rmq -> 'orders'::text) AS order > FROM table_name > WHERE blah; > I get out of memory error. > > Is there anything I can do to unpack the above? > > The JSON column is about ~5 MB and it has about ~150,000 array > row elements in 'orders' above. > > I tried work_mem values up to ~250MB and it did not help, the query > takes about same time to fail. > > I guess this parameter does not help JSON processing. > > If there another parameter I can try? Something else? > > I don't have control of the size of the JSON payload, it arrives, we > store it in a JSON column and then we need to crack it open. > > Many thanks! > Hello, It would help if you advised:- (a) version of PostgreSql being used. (b) is column json_rmq defined as json or jsonb? (c) OS. Cheers, Rob
