"Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> writes:
> On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:58:41AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> How many rows would you expect this command to insert?
>>
>> You might be running into the fact that pending-trigger-call lists are
>> kept in memory, but it's hard to tell without knowing the number of
>> rows involved...
> 35M
Each pending deferred-trigger action takes about 40 bytes + palloc
overhead, probably 48 bytes altogether ... 48 * 35M comes to 1.68G, so
that's exactly where your problem is. I'd suggest trying to commit the
changes in smaller batches ...
regards, tom lane
