Problem with insert into select... - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From stephen farrell
Subject Problem with insert into select...
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Msg-id 3FBD2D8B.8020509@almaden.ibm.com
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Responses Re: Problem with insert into select...  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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I'm having a problem with a queyr like:  INSERT INTO FACT (x,x,x,x,x,x)
SELECT a.key,b.key,c.key,d.key,e.key,f.key from x,a,b,c,d,e,f where x=a
and x=b ....   -- postgres7.4 is running out of memory.  I'm not sure
why this would happen -- does it buffer the subselect before doing the
insert?

Things are pretty big scale: 3gb ram, 32768 shared buffers, 700gb disk,
millions of rows in the tables.





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