From: | Jorge Arévalo <jorge(dot)arevalo(at)deimos-space(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Join query including two generate_series calls causes big memory growth and crash |
Date: | 2011-04-20 15:51:46 |
Message-ID: | BANLkTimXi6MOspxKBZ4yb+EdN-mRQkm1DA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Ar=E9valo?= <jorge(dot)arevalo(at)deimos-space(dot)com> writes:
>> I'm executing this query:
>
>> SELECT x, y, another_field FROM generate_series(1, 10) x,
>> generate_series(1, 10) y, my_table
>
>> The field 'another_field' belongs to 'my_table'. And that table has
>> 360000 entries. In a 64 bits machine, with 4GB RAM, Ubuntu 10.10 and
>> postgres 8.4.7, the query works fine. But in a 32 bits machine, with
>> 1GB RAM, Ubuntu 9.10 and postgres 8.4.7, the query process is killed
>> after taking about 80% of available memory. In the 64 bits machine the
>> query takes about 60-70% of the available memory too, but it ends.
>
> You mean the backend, or psql? I don't see any particular backend bloat
> when I do that, but psql eats memory because it's trying to absorb and
> display the whole query result.
>
Yes, the memory eater is psql, not backend.
>> Is it normal? I mean, postgres has to deal with millions of rows, ok,
>> but shouldn't it start swapping memory instead of crashing? Is a
>> question of postgres configuration?
>
> Try "\set FETCH_COUNT 1000" or so.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
Thanks for the tip.
Best regards,
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