Re: ERROR: Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc(188)

From: Tilo Schwarz <mail(at)tilo-schwarz(dot)de>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ERROR: Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc(188)
Date: 2003-05-26 18:56:32
Message-ID: 200305262056.32433.mail@tilo-schwarz.de
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Martijn van Oosterhout writes:
> On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 06:21:28PM +0200, Tilo Schwarz wrote:
> > Dear Postgresql gurus,
> >
> > I have a problem (7.3.1 on linux) with a query eating all my memory.
> > First it take 2G RAM and then 2G swap. Now I saw, that 7.3.2 addresses
> > some memory issues, could my problem solved by upgrading to 7.3.2?
> >
> > Thanks a lot, description follows
> >
> > Tilo
> >
> > (the query involves a table with 33925848 rows, but only a few thousand
> > rows should be returned)
>
> Please send the definition of the view and of your tables.

To prevent nasty line breaks, I put the definitions in a text file at:

http://www.tilo-schwarz.de/OutOfMem.txt

In the meantime I read Toms' comments regarding the "pending-trigger-call
lists" - does that apply to my problem too (I have just a SELECT)?

Thanks a lot!

Tilo

PS:
> I couldn't immediatly puzzle out your reply email address so you'll just
> have to read this in the archive.

I "encrypted" my mail address (obviously too complicated), because since I
posted a few times on this list, I get about ten times the amount of spam
than I got before.

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