Re: Programming error: Out of Memory

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jorge Arévalo <jorge(dot)arevalo(at)deimos-space(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Programming error: Out of Memory
Date: 2010-11-16 22:46:51
Message-ID: 8047.1289947611@sss.pgh.pa.us
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Ar=E9valo?= <jorge(dot)arevalo(at)deimos-space(dot)com> writes:
> I'm getting an error message in my Python script:

> pg.ProgrammingError: ERROR: out of memory
> DETAIL: Failed on request of size 16.

That's pretty odd because the memory map you provided isn't showing any
particular signs of bloat. I wonder whether either Python or PostGIS
is leaking memory directly (ie, through malloc calls, which wouldn't
show in the memory map).

Can you boil it down to a self-contained test case?

regards, tom lane

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