Re: 8.3rc1 Out of memory when performing update - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 8.3rc1 Out of memory when performing update
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Msg-id 21675.1201228274@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to 8.3rc1 Out of memory when performing update  ("Stephen Denne" <Stephen.Denne@datamail.co.nz>)
Responses Re: 8.3rc1 Out of memory when performing update  ("Stephen Denne" <Stephen.Denne@datamail.co.nz>)
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"Stephen Denne" <Stephen.Denne@datamail.co.nz> writes:
> A simple update query, over roughly 17 million rows, populating a newly added column in a table, resulted in an out
ofmemory error when the process memory usage reached 2GB. Could this be due to a poor choice of some configuration
parameter,or is there a limit on how many rows I can update in a single statement? 

Do you have any triggers or foreign keys on that table?  For that
matter, let's see its whole schema definition.

            regards, tom lane

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