2011/8/29 Rural Hunter <ruralhunter@gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
> I'm a newbie here. I'm trying to test pgsql with my mysql data. If the
> performance is good, I will migrate from mysql to pgsql.
> I installed pgsql 9.1rc on my Ubuntu server. I'm trying to import a large
> sql file dumped from mysql into pgsql with 'plsql -f'. The file is around
> 30G with bulk insert commands in it. It rans several hours and then aborted
> with an "out of memory" error. This is the tail of the log I got:
> INSERT 0 280
> INSERT 0 248
> INSERT 0 210
> INSERT 0 199
> invalid command \n
> out of memory
I'd look at what's leading to the invalid command \n up there. I
doubt the out of memory is more than a symptom from that. I.e. some
part of your inserts are improperly formatted and the machine is then
trying to insert a row with what it thinks is a column of several
gigabytes.