Re: Odd out of memory problem.

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Odd out of memory problem.
Date: 2012-03-26 17:54:43
Message-ID: 4F70AD63.9020607@dunslane.net
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On 03/26/2012 01:34 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> On 03/26/2012 01:06 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>>> Is it possible this job is inserting and then updating (or deleteing)
>>>> the row it just inserted and doing a large number of such
>>>> insert/update operations all within the same transaction? Or perhaps
>>>> it's updating the same row over and over again?
>> It's all in a single transaction. In fact the solution I'm currently
>> testing and seems to be working involves breaking it up into batches of
>> a few thousand LOs restored per batch.
> Hm. The test case is just a straight pg_restore of lots and lots of LOs?
> What pg_dump version was the dump made with?
>
>

8.4.8, same as the target. We get the same issue whether we restore
direct to the database from pg_restore or via a text dump.

cheers

andrew

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