Re: Merge join exhausting swap space

From: Martin Weinberg <weinberg(at)osprey(dot)astro(dot)umass(dot)edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, weinberg(at)osprey(dot)astro(dot)umass(dot)edu
Subject: Re: Merge join exhausting swap space
Date: 2001-06-13 18:52:48
Message-ID: 200106131852.OAA24205@osprey.astro.umass.edu
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Tom Lane wrote on Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:28:14 EDT
>Martin Weinberg <weinberg(at)osprey(dot)astro(dot)umass(dot)edu> writes:
>> As long as the input table (in this case, may14_goodsrc) is small
>> enough it works fine. For large input tables, postgres exhausts
>> all swap space and crashes.
>
>What Postgres version?
>
>If it's 7.0, try 7.1.
>

Thanks Tom! We are still testing but 7.1 seems to have fixed the
problem (yes, it was 7.0). There are probably better ways of doing
two-point correlation functions. I suppose what we really need here
is some sort of spatial hash.

--Martin

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