Re: Big insert/delete memory problems - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Big insert/delete memory problems
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Msg-id 111.1048013243@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Big insert/delete memory problems  (Kurt Overberg <kurt@hotdogrecords.com>)
Responses Re: Big insert/delete memory problems  (Kurt Overberg <kurt@hotdogrecords.com>)
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Kurt Overberg <kurt@hotdogrecords.com> writes:
> delete from xrefmembergroup where membergroupid = 2 ; select 1 as true;

> insert into xrefmembergroup (membergroupid, memberid) select 2 as
> membergroupid, member.id as memberid from member where  ((extract(year
> from age(birthdate))) >= '17' ); select 1 as true;

> ...my memory usage goes nuts- allocates 20-30 Mb per time I run this.

Postgres version?

Sounds like a memory leak, but there's not enough info here to debug it.
Which of these queries exactly is leaking memory?  If it's the
INSERT/SELECT (as I suspect), what's the schema of the 'member' table?

            regards, tom lane

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