I believe I am seeing a similar problem in 7.2b4 under Linux.
Large and complex queries work fine after the postmaster is
first started up. The same queries fail days/weeks later.
Typically psql unexpectedly disconnects while running the
queries. Restarting psql will not clear the problem, but
stopping/restarting the postmaster will.
Mark Rae wrote:
>
> Case 2: This is with 7.2b4 on Linux
> I created one database as before and everything works as expected,
> however I then created a second database without dropping the original,
> and it also seemed to be working as expected.
> However as it grew in size, it slowed down significantly (20-30 times slower),
> as though it could not get enough memory for the indexes (The largest of
> which can be 0.5G-1G in size).
> Although this time the backend process appeared to have the whole 512M
> 'swapped in'. Again restarting postgres cleared the problem.
>
>
> Unfortunately the problem does not appear to be reliably repeatable,
> so I am just guessing that the problem might be related to the SHM buffers
> being 'leaked' or becoming permanently assigned to a specific
> database, even when they are no longer needed.
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