Failed to export a really big project from gitlab.com

Summary

Failed to export a really big project from gitlab.com

Steps to reproduce

Export adme/apacs project

Expected behavior

The link to the exported project should show up in the interface/be mailed

Actual behavior

It fails silently (no response at all). Today we received the email below.

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

Project apacs couldn't be exported.

The errors we encountered were:

PG::AdminShutdown: FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command server closed the connection unexpectedly This probably means the server terminated abnormally before or while processing the request. : SELECT "events".* FROM "events" WHERE ("events"."author_id" IS NOT NULL) AND "events"."target_id" = $1 AND "events"."target_type" = $2