On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2025-Jul-28, Sbob wrote:
> All;
>
>
> We are loading a series of files into a single table, each file has approx
> 500million rows, the first file took ~ 1.25 hours, now on file number 8 it
> has been running for more than 10 hours, there is only a PK index on the
> table.
I bet it's trying to find unused OIDs for toast pointers -- there are
only 2^32-1 of those available in any one toast table, and by the eighth
file of 500 million rows, you'd run out.
That seems to imply you can only insert 4Bn rows into a table with attached TOAST. Am I misunderstanding something?
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