Re: autovacuum launcher process eating up 17G+ of ram?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Nick <t32(at)2thebatcave(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <kevin(dot)grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: autovacuum launcher process eating up 17G+ of ram?
Date: 2010-11-08 22:09:31
Message-ID: 1289253773-sup-7048@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of lun nov 08 12:15:02 -0300 2010:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Patch for this is attached (applies cleanly to 9.0 and HEAD; 8.4 doesn't
> > need to be patched, but I'll run the test case now just to be sure.)
>
> Possibly s/cxt/resultcxt/, or some other less-generic name. Seems
> pretty sane other than that cosmetic issue.

Thanks, committed that way and pushed. I verified that 8.4 doesn't have
this problem.

Oops, I just noticed that I forgot to credit everyone for the report and
diagnosis in the commit message. Too late to fix :-(

So: thanks Nick for the report and Tom for the diagnosis.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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