From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Tino Schwarze <postgresql@tisc.de>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org, "Tena Sakai" <tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu>
Subject: Re: out of memory
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:20:48 -0400
Message-ID: <20997.1189606848@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070912081205.GA29139@easy2.in-chemnitz.de>
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Tino Schwarze <postgresql@tisc.de> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:15:56PM -0700, Tena Sakai wrote:
>> But there's a problem, for which I hope you have
>> more wisdom. The reason why I tried that query
>> is because someone tried the same thing via odbc
>> from pc quering postgres database and got the
>> same error ("out of memory").
>>
>> What can a pc user do? Anything?
> Tell the user that he/she should use an appropiate WHERE clause. You
> might also consider adding more swap to the machine. Then it will go
> horribly slow, but it will work.
Or turn the query into a cursor so you can FETCH a reasonable number of
rows at a time.
regards, tom lane
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