Re: Huge amount of memory consumed during transaction

From: Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: henk de wit <henk53602(at)hotmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Huge amount of memory consumed during transaction
Date: 2007-10-11 16:51:08
Message-ID: 69723004-A93C-41DE-BC69-57ABFAB059C2@myemma.com
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On Oct 11, 2007, at 9:51 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> henk de wit <henk53602(at)hotmail(dot)com> writes:
>> ERROR: out of memory
>> DETAIL: Failed on request of size 4194304.
>
> This error should have produced a map of per-context memory use in the
> postmaster log. Please show us that.
>
> regards, tom lane

Tom, are there any docs anywhere that explain how to interpret those
per-context memory dumps? For example, when I see an autovacuum
context listed is it safe to assume that the error came from an
autovac operation, etc.?

Erik Jones

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