RE: High memory usage

More info on this...

First, this type of query seems to use exponential amounts of memory. I
tried a join with 10 pieces (the one below with 9 used ~60MB) and it went up
immediately to ~ 390MB usage and has been sitting there at 100% CPU usage
for more than 10 minutes. This is on a database with almost no data in it.
Similarly, a query with only 8 joins is very quick and has much lower memory
usage.

Best regards,

--Rainer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rainer Mager [mailto:rmager(at)vgkk(dot)com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 4:19 PM
> To: Tom Lane
> Cc: PostgreSQL Admin
> Subject: RE: [ADMIN] High memory usage
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Here is a query that demonstrates the problem. Running this
> takes about 60MB until it is done at which time it is freed (I
> was wrong when I said otherwise earlier). Interestingly, the same
> amount of memory is used when doing an EXPLAIN on this query.
> Also it happens to return 0 rows. Please excuse the weird
> characters in the middle this is a Japanese (UTF8) database. Also
> please excuse Outlook breaking the query, it is just one long line.
>
>
> SELECT DISTINCT product.product_id FROM product, pr_prop_str
> alias_table_0, pr_prop_str alias_table_1, pr_prop_str
> alias_table_2, pr_prop_str alias_table_3, pr_prop_str
> alias_table_4, pr_prop_str alias_table_5, pr_prop_str
> alias_table_6, pr_prop_str alias_table_7, pr_prop_str
> alias_table_8 WHERE product.product_id = alias_table_0.product_id
> AND product.product_id = alias_table_1.product_id AND
> product.product_id = alias_table_2.product_id AND
> product.product_id = alias_table_3.product_id AND
> product.product_id = alias_table_4.product_id AND
> product.product_id = alias_table_5.product_id AND
> product.product_id = alias_table_6.product_id AND
> product.product_id = alias_table_7.product_id AND
> product.product_id = alias_table_8.product_id AND (
> alias_table_0.pr_property_id = 147 AND alias_table_0.str =
> '3E362cb' ) AND ( alias_table_1.pr_property_id = 18 AND
> alias_table_1.str > '000999999' ) AND (
> alias_table_2.pr_property_id = 18 AND alias_table_2.str <
> '004999999' ) AND ( alias_table_3.pr_property_id = 51 AND
> alias_table_3.str = '蛬Oウ縷C~O縷Cウ縷C~I縷Cォ' ) AND (
> alias_table_4.pr_property_id = 115 AND alias_table_4.str = '1' )
> AND ( alias_table_5.pr_property_id = 68 AND alias_table_5.str =
> '05' ) AND ( alias_table_6.pr_property_id = 113 AND
> alias_table_6.str < '030001' ) AND ( alias_table_7.pr_property_id
> = 57 AND alias_table_7.str < '19980101' ) AND (
> alias_table_8.pr_property_id = 158 AND alias_table_8.str = '1' );