Re: Huge amount of memory consumed during transaction - Mailing list pgsql-performance

henk de wit wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running into a problem with PostgreSQL 8.2.4 (running on 32 bit
> Debian Etch/2x dual core C2D/8GB mem). The thing is that I have a
> huge transaction that does 2 things: 1) delete about 300.000 rows
> from a table with about 15 million rows and 2) do some (heavy)
> calculations and re-insert a litlte more than 300.000 new rows.
>
> My problem is that this consumes huge amounts of memory.

What exactly consumes all your memory? I'm assuming it's not just
straight SQL.

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