[OSM-dev] Osm2pgsql and failed planet import

[Martijn van O]

On 30 August 2011 12:07, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 08/30/11 11:50, John Smith wrote:
>>
>> osm2pgsql doesn't have any code to check for memory allocation
>> failures and to deal with it in a sane way
>
> The error message discussed here is not a segfault, but an out of memory
> condition reported by the PostgreSQL client library. It has nothing to do
> with osm2pgsql's own memory allocation.

This indicates the code should be changed to retrieve the data in
blocks using a cursor.

Mvg,
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