djangoadmin loaddata gives odd error if it runs out of memory

[chrisw]

Hi All,

I tried to import a 3.2GB xml file, partly to see if Django loads the whole file into memory when it's importing and partly to see how large pg client transactions work. Whichever caused the problem, I have a fair idea that even thought the machine has 4GB of memory, the process ran out of memory.

I'd expect a MemoryError if that were the case, what I actually got was:

File "django/core/management/init.py", line 362, in execute_manager

utility.execute()

File "/django/core/management/init.py", line 303, in execute

self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)

File "django/core/management/base.py", line 195, in run_from_argv

self.execute(*args, options.dict)

File "django/core/management/base.py", line 222, in execute

output = self.handle(*args, options)

File "django/core/management/commands/loaddata.py", line 200, in handle

transaction.leave_transaction_management()

File "django/db/transaction.py", line 74, in leave_transaction_management

raise TransactionManagementError("This code isn't under transaction management")

django.db.transaction.TransactionManagementError: This code isn't under transaction management

cheers,

Chris