Re: Is my database now too big?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Darren Reed <darrenr(at)fastmail(dot)net>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Is my database now too big?
Date: 2007-10-15 21:56:11
Message-ID: 23809.1192485371@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Darren Reed <darrenr(at)fastmail(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Anyway, the above error should have also produced a map of per-context
>> memory usage in the postmaster log (ie, postmaster stderr). If you
>> could show us that, it might be revealing.

> MessageContext: 267378688 total in 43 blocks; 1768 free (45 chunks);
> 267376920 used

> The standout problem is the "MessageContext" count.

Indeed. And there shouldn't even be anything in MessageContext until
the first client command has been received. Maybe you have something
in ~/.psqlrc that you haven't told us about?

regards, tom lane

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