postmaster out of memory....

From: Joe Maldonado <jmaldonado(at)mail(dot)webehosting(dot)biz>
To: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: postmaster out of memory....
Date: 2004-02-27 18:45:07
Message-ID: opr31k1hl9xjk05d@mail.webehosting.biz
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-general

Hello all!

when asking postgres to aggregate totals accross 4.5 or so Million records. The visible effect is that the postmaster will grow to the 3GB process limit and die without a core :(.
I have seen this same behaviour discussed back in 6.5 archives in the thread with subject "[SQL] How to avoid "Out of memory" using aggregate functions? ". Is this fixed? Why is the postmaster exceeding it's 102MB sort mem size when doing these queries and not paging out the data?

-Joe Maldonado

--
Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

Responses

Browse pgsql-general by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message terry 2004-02-27 18:50:29 Re: field must appear in the GROUP BY clause or be used
Previous Message Bill Moran 2004-02-27 18:42:09 Re: field must appear in the GROUP BY clause or be used