=?ISO-8859-1?Q?I=F1igo?= Martinez Lasala <imartinez@vectorsf.com> writes:
> We have a problem with an insert query in one of our clients. This query
> is launched in a night batch process. We have observed that if change
> set is big (more than 50.000 updates) our database log starts growing
> with thousands and thousands of lines until the server is out of space
> and database freezes.
You're running out of memory.
> work_mem = 2000MB
> maintenance_work_mem = 1024M
These two settings are probably the cause. With shared_buffers at 2GB,
you do not have anywhere near 1GB to play around with in a 32-bit
environment. Try something like 200M and 500M.
> Increasing temp buffers could help?
I can hardly think of anything more counterproductive. You don't
have enough address space.
regards, tom lane
