Re: Odd out of memory problem.

On 03/26/2012 01:34 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net>  writes:
>> On 03/26/2012 01:06 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>>> Is it possible this job is inserting and then updating (or deleteing)
>>>> the row it just inserted and doing a large number of such
>>>> insert/update operations all within the same transaction? Or perhaps
>>>> it's updating the same row over and over again?
>> It's all in a single transaction. In fact the solution I'm currently
>> testing and seems to be working involves breaking it up into batches of
>> a few thousand LOs restored per batch.
> Hm.  The test case is just a straight pg_restore of lots and lots of LOs?
> What pg_dump version was the dump made with?
>
>             


8.4.8, same as the target. We get the same issue whether we restore 
direct to the database from pg_restore or via a text dump.

cheers

andrew