Byron Nikolaidis wrote:
>
> SELECT balance_id,company_id, balance_date, is_audited,comment,
> balance_type, balance_filename FROM balance WHERE balance_id = 1 AND
> company_id=1 OR balance_id = 1 AND company_id=2 OR balance_id = 1 AND
> company_id=3 OR balance_id = 2 AND company_id=1 OR balance_id = 2 AND
> company_id=2 OR balance_id = 2 AND company_id=3 OR balance_id = 3 AND
> company_id=1 OR balance_id = 3 AND company_id=2 OR balance_id = 3 AND
> company_id=3 OR balance_id = 4 AND company_id=1
>
> Any more than 2 keyparts, results in crashing the backend with the
> message
> "palloc failure: memory exhausted". Even at 2 keyparts, performance
> suffers greatly.
THis is known problem of canonificator in optimizer. This query will
crash backend without any indices too.
We told about this in the 6.3-beta period.
No fix currently. I don't know when it will be at all.
Vadim
