Re: Odd out of memory problem.

On 03/26/2012 01:54 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> 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?
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> 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.



Following this up, the workaround of making small batches of LOs did 
solve that memory issue. Here's what I did:

    pg_restore --list full_export.dmp | grep BLOB > bloblist
    pg_restore --use-list=bloblist full_export.dmp | \
        perl -n e  ' $n++  if /lo_open/; ' \
             -e ' print " end; begin;\n" if (/lo_open/ && ($n % 1000 ==
    0)); ' \
             -e ' print ;' |  \
        psql -t -q -v ON_ERROR_STOP "dbname=adtest" > /dev/null


That's a fairly ugly hack to have to use.


cheers

andrew