sharilalipv <sharilalipv@gmail.com> writes: > I could not restore a table (4.1GB) in postgresql database server.
> 2014-01-01 18:12:31 IST LOG: server process (PID 60667) was terminated by > signal 9: Killed
OOM killer at work, evidently. You should consider adjusting your kernel settings to prevent memory overcommit. However, for this particular case that might not do much beyond allowing a more graceful failure. I'm going to guess that the reason the backend process is eating memory is that there's a foreign key constraint on the table, or some other reason to fire AFTER triggers for it, so that the trigger event list is getting big. You would be best off dropping the foreign key(s) and then recreating them after you've loaded the data --- this will likely be faster overall, as well as less prone to memory bloat.