Why does Dumpling return `The local disk space is insufficient` error or cause the upstream database to run out of memory when exporting a table?

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This issue might have the following causes:

  • The database’s primary keys are not evenly distributed (for example, when you enable SHARD_ROW_ID_BITS).
  • The upstream database is TiDB and the exported table is a partitioned table.

For the above cases, Dumpling splits excessively large data chunk for the export and sends queries with excessively large results. To address the issue, you can contact us to get the nightly version of Dumpling.