Charles Martin <ssappeals@gmail.com> writes:
> Yep, you called it:
> Nov 2 20:30:45 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Kill process 30438
> (postmaster) score 709 or sacrifice child
> Nov 2 20:30:45 localhost kernel: Killed process 30438, UID 26,
> (postmaster) total-vm:3068900kB, anon-rss:1695392kB, file-rss:1074692kB
> So it's running out of memory when trying to dump this table. The "old"
> server has 4GB of ram, the "new" server 20GB.
That's kind of odd: a COPY shouldn't really consume very much working
memory. I suspect that much of the process's apparent VM consumption may
be shared buffers ... what have you got shared_buffers set to on the old
server? If it's more than half a GB or so, maybe reducing it would help.
regards, tom lane
