> On Sep 21, 2018, at 7:59 PM, Andres Freund <andres@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 2018-09-21 18:28:37 -0600, Rob Sargent wrote: >> "/tmp/regen.file" gets very large, very fast and I have to >> pg_terminate_backend. Tried this three times, once using "\o test.blob" >> instead. >> >> h009357:loader$ ls -ltr >> total 2048 >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 u0138544 camplab 10002460672 Sep 21 15:49 test.blob > > I suspect the layouting of such wide columns problably creates a lot of > pain. I'd try \copy and doing the query after \a. > > Greetings, > > Andres Freund The formatting could be an issue for sure: there are a couple of very long lines early and late in the file. But my real concern is the unending output stream. If I haven’t made some obvious mistake, psql redirect of large text values may have an issue.
