Re: Is my database now too big?

From: Darren Reed <darrenr+postgres(at)fastmail(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Is my database now too big?
Date: 2007-10-16 01:34:23
Message-ID: 4714151F.4050307@fastmail.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Darren Reed <darrenr(at)fastmail(dot)net> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Anyway, the above error should have also produced a map of per-context
> >> memory usage in the postmaster log (ie, postmaster stderr). If you
> >> could show us that, it might be revealing.
>
> > MessageContext: 267378688 total in 43 blocks; 1768 free (45 chunks);
> > 267376920 used
>
> > The standout problem is the "MessageContext" count.
>
> Indeed. And there shouldn't even be anything in MessageContext until
> the first client command has been received. Maybe you have something
> in ~/.psqlrc that you haven't told us about?
>

That's easy - I don't even have one of these files!

Darren

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