[OSM-talk] Osm2pgsql fails with Finland.osm.bz2

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Jon Burgess <jburgess777 <at> googlemail.com> writes:

> 
> On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 15:27 +0000, Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have been importing Finland.osm.bz2 dataset from Geofabrik into Postgis every
> > day with osm2pgsql.exe (on Windows) but now it fails. The error looks like this:
> > Reading in file: finland.osm.bz2
> > Processing: Node(2835k) Way(37k) Relation(0k)Error allocating ways
> > Error occurred, cleaning up
........
> 
> These first two look like an out of memory condition causing malloc() to
> fail. 

Right, another computer with more memory imports the same data with same program
versions.
 
> 
> > I made a third trial by using another version of osm2pgsql.exe with Finnish data
> > but again with no luck. A bit different error message though:
> > Reading in file: finland.osm.bz2
> > Processing: Node(2835k) Way(194k) Relation(0k)terminate called after throwing an
> >  instance of 'geos::util::TopologyException'

...
> 
> Normally the code catches exceptions from geos and ignores them. In some
> builds of osm2pgsql.exe this mechanism is broken and a geometry
> exception will instead cause the program to abort. It looks like this is
> one of these broken versions.
...
> This version of osm2pgsql.exe it should not have the exception problem:
> http://tile.openstreetmap.org/direct/osm2pgsql.zip

Right again, this one does not stop to topology errors. So no problem at all,
the amount of data had just reached the limits of the first computer I used.