Re: out of memory woes

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Angva" <angvaw(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: out of memory woes
Date: 2006-12-14 16:27:10
Message-ID: 21351.1166113630@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Angva" <angvaw(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> As I've mentioned in a few other posts, I run a daily job that loads
> large amounts of data into a Postgres database. It must run
> efficiently, so one of the tricks I do is run table loads, and commands
> such as cluster, in parallel. I am having a problem where my cluster
> job consistently fails with an out of memory error.

Could we see the actual error message? If it's a server-side error
then there should also be a memory context dump into the postmaster
log, which would be useful to see also. Lastly, please show the full
schema definition (including indexes) for the troublesome tables.

regards, tom lane

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