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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:55:41 +0000
From: Clayton Cottingham <drfrog@smartt.com>
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Subject: out of memory errors
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i try to dump records out , just two colums using

psql emq_frontend -c "select 1column,2column from table;">twocolumnsout

from a 1.2 mill db

and it gives me either out of memory
or backend close or
sent d b4 t errors
also a setallocmem()
sorry for psuedo quoting

has anyone ever seen this