Re: Death postgres - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter J. Holzer
Subject Re: Death postgres
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Msg-id 20230506074625.ve4wbvt57cup63li@hjp.at
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In response to Death postgres  (Marc Millas <marc.millas@mokadb.com>)
Responses Re: Death postgres  (Marc Millas <marc.millas@mokadb.com>)
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On 2023-05-06 03:14:20 +0200, Marc Millas wrote:
> postgres 14.2 on Linux redhat
>
> temp_file_limit set around 210 GB.
>
> a select request with 2 left join have crashed the server (oom killer) after
> the postgres disk occupation did grow from 15TB to 16 TB.

temp_file_limit limits the space a process may use on disk while the OOM
killer gets activated when the system runs out of RAM. So these seem to
be unrelated.

        hp

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