Re: postmaster growing to consume all memory - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: postmaster growing to consume all memory
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Msg-id 7818.1075268539@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: postmaster growing to consume all memory  (Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh@pop.jaring.my>)
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Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh@pop.jaring.my> writes:
> No offense intended but I doubt the estimator will get things right all the
> time (esp if my built-in Murphy Field Intensifier happens to be on).

Doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to improve it.  The present code for
estimating number of groups is new in 7.4 and I'm sure there are things
that need to be done to it.  I'd like to think that factor-of-1000
errors on simple cases are not the best we can do.

            regards, tom lane

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