Re: Out of memory on update of a single column table containg just one row.

Hello Thom,

Thanks for your quick response.

So, is this there a restriction with 32-bit PostgreSQL, a bug or configuration issue?

I will most definitely upgrade to 64-bit, because that's what we want anyway.  However, I was curious what is the root
causeof this problem? 

I am getting a bit worried about this migration, although our database is not too big (less than 200GB).

Once again, thanks for your help.

Zeeshan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-
> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Markus
> Sent: 05 July 2010 14:39
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Out of memory on update of a single column table
> containg just one row.
>
>   Hi,
>
> i tried a simple test:
> create temp table _t as select repeat('x',382637520) as test;
> update _t set test=test||test;
>
> pg 8.3 32bit fails with
> [Error Code: 0, SQL State: 53200]  ERROR: out of memory
>    Detail: Failed on request of size 765275088.
>
> pg 8.4.4 64bit works fine
>
> so upgrade to 64bit
>
> regards
> Thomas
>
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