"Henry - Zen Search SA" <henry(at)zen(dot)co(dot)za> writes:
> Our selects which have run normally for a very long time suddenly started:
> - consuming all memory.
> - crashing (oom) if the select was run directly.
> - producing "out of balance" results in one of the column results if run
> from within a function.
The string "out of balance" appears nowhere in the PG 8.2.x sources.
So I suppose it must have come from some add-on code, or perhaps got
inserted on the client side. What data type is that column, and what
non-core code is involved?
regards, tom lane