Re: [8.0.0] out of memory on large UPDATE - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
>> The table contains ~10 million rows:
>
>> # time psql -c "UPDATE xa_url SET url = url;" -U pgsql pareto
>> ERROR:  out of memory
>> DETAIL:  Failed on request of size 32.
>
> If you've got any AFTER UPDATE triggers on that table, you could be
> running out of memory for the pending-triggers list.

Nope, only have a BEFORE UPDATE, or would that be similar except for at
which point it runs out of memory?

Triggers:
     xa_url_domain_b_i_u BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON xa_url FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE xa_url_domain()

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