Re: capturing/viewing sort_mem utilization on a per query basis - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Lonni J Friedman
Subject Re: capturing/viewing sort_mem utilization on a per query basis
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Msg-id 7c1574a9050202094094dd0ec@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: capturing/viewing sort_mem utilization on a per query basis  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: capturing/viewing sort_mem utilization on a per query basis
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On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:13:59 -0500, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman <netllama@gmail.com> writes:
> > Although, looking in the log postgresql is generating, I'm seeing the
> > following at the same time as that OOM above so it certainly looks
> > like the DB is barfing:
>
> OK, then it's a backend issue not a client-side issue.
>
> > HashBatchContext: -1934683632 total in 295 blocks; 135760 free (879
> > chunks); -1934819392 used
>
> Hmm, looks like a hash join ran out of memory.  What PG version is this
> again, and what do you have sort_mem set to?  Can you show an EXPLAIN
> for the query that is failing like this?

This is PostgreSQL-7.4.6 running on RHES-3 (using the RPMs).
sort_mem=100000

I've attached the explain for the query that is blowing up.  Thanks
for looking at this.


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