Re: [HACKERS] generated columns

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Sergei Kornilov <sk(at)zsrv(dot)org>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(dot)casanova(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] generated columns
Date: 2019-01-17 01:12:26
Message-ID: 20190117011226.GB2036@paquier.xyz
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 02:14:41PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 15/01/2019 08:13, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> When testing a bulk INSERT into a table which has a stored generated
>> column, memory keeps growing in size linearly, which does not seem
>> normal to me. If inserting more tuples than what I tested (I stopped
>> at 10M because of lack of time), it seems to me that this could result
>> in OOMs. I would have expected the memory usage to be steady.
>
> What are you executing exactly? One INSERT command with many rows?

Yes, something like that grows the memory and CPU usage rather
linearly:
CREATE TABLE tab (a int, b int GENERATED ALWAYS AS (a * 2) STORED);
INSERT INTO tab VALUES (generate_series(1,100000000));
--
Michael

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