Re: Out of memory errors on pg_dump - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Out of memory errors on pg_dump
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Msg-id 13098.1339607879@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Out of memory errors on pg_dump  (Chander Ganesan <chander.ganesan@gmail.com>)
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Chander Ganesan <chander.ganesan@gmail.com> writes:
> I get this whenever I try to do a pg_dump.  Curiously, if I *decrease*
> shared buffers waaaay down, I find that these errors go away.

32-bit machine no doubt?  There's a limit to how big a datum can be
slung around in a 32-bit address space, and it's not very many tens of
megabytes if you've got shared_buffers eating a large chunk of that
address space.

            regards, tom lane

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