Re: PostgreSQL query failed: COPY state must be terminated first - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jeff Eckermann
Subject Re: PostgreSQL query failed: COPY state must be terminated first
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Msg-id 20021017185316.57831.qmail@web20803.mail.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL query failed: COPY state must be terminated first  (Shane Wright <me@shanewright.co.uk>)
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--- Shane Wright <me@shanewright.co.uk> wrote:
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> Hi
>
> Thanks, that sounds plausible.  However IIRC 7.1.x
> doesn't have cursors :(
>

Sure it does:
http://www.us.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.1/reference/sql-declare.html


> It would be prohibitively complex to try to rework
> the queries - is there a
> particular memory chunk its likely to be (and how to
> increase whats
> available?)  The server isn't short of RAM so should
> be a reasonable
> workaround for now.
>

Others more knowledgable will have to answer that.  I
had assumed that you are hitting some hard limit.

> Thanks
>
> Shane
>
>
> On Thursday 17 October 2002 2:58 pm, Jeff Eckermann
> wrote:
> > This kind of error usually indicates that your
> result
> > set has exceeded the available memory.  I think
> the
> > "COPY" message is just noise.
> > The workaround would be to declare your query as a
> > cursor, and fetch the results in manageable
> chunks.
>
> - --
> Shane
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