Re: Massive update, memory usage

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Trenta sis <trenta(dot)sis(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Massive update, memory usage
Date: 2010-10-27 23:24:33
Message-ID: 4CC8B4B1.1070208@postnewspapers.com.au
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On 10/28/2010 02:38 AM, Trenta sis wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a Linux Server (Debian) with Postgres 8.3 and I have problems
> with a massive update, about 400000 updates/inserts.
> If I execute about 100000 it seems all ok, but when I execute 400000, I
> have the same problem with or without a transaction (I need to do with a
> transaction) increase memory usage and disk usage.
> With a execution of 400.000 inserts/update server begin woring well, but
> after 100 seconds of executions increase usage of RAM, and then Swap and
> finally all RAM and swap are used and execution can't finish.

Do you have lots of triggers on the table? Or foreign key relationships
that're DEFERRABLE ?

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Craig Ringer

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