Re: 8.3rc1 Out of memory when performing update

From: Fernando Ike <fike(at)midstorm(dot)org>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 8.3rc1 Out of memory when performing update
Date: 2008-01-25 01:14:33
Message-ID: 20080124231433.2f312549@pmanson
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Em Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:46:20 +1300
"Stephen Denne" <Stephen(dot)Denne(at)datamail(dot)co(dot)nz> escreveu:

> A simple update query, over roughly 17 million rows, populating a
> newly added column in a table, resulted in an out of memory error
> when the process memory usage reached 2GB. Could this be due to a
> poor choice of some configuration parameter, or is there a limit on
> how many rows I can update in a single statement?
>

I believe that it is plataform problem. Because on *nix this limit
don't occur. But I don't specialist Windows.

Kind Regards,
--
Fernando Ike
http://www.midstorm.org/~fike/weblog

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