Re: Out of memory on SELECT (from sort?) in 8.3

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Matt Magoffin" <postgresql(dot)org(at)msqr(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Out of memory on SELECT (from sort?) in 8.3
Date: 2008-09-26 00:15:33
Message-ID: 1468.1222388133@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Matt Magoffin" <postgresql(dot)org(at)msqr(dot)us> writes:
>> Try the patch here:
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2008-09/msg00159.php

> I've applied this patch now to our staging and production environments,
> and Postgres performed quite well after testing very large result sets
> that were previously failing with out of memory errors... so the patch is
> successful for this problem I was having. I didn't see any significant
> increase in memory over the course of the query execution, in fact.

Good to hear. That patch is baked into 8.3.4, if you want to go back to
using a stock release...

regards, tom lane

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