Quoting Ligia Pimentel <lmpimentel@yahoo.com>:
>
> I have a problem with postgres, I'm running a query that joins two tables,
> one with 129000+ records, and the other with 1172 records, it's a very
> simple join. But postgres can't handle it!!! (Both tables have an index on
> the field "cuentacb").
>
> I get the following error after 3 minutes...
>
> migracion=# select * from cuentasequivalentes, equiv11mayo m
> migracion-# where cuentasequivalentes.cuentacb = m.cuentacb
> migracion-# and cuentasequivalentes.cuentabr <> m.cuentabr;
> FATAL 1: Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc()
> pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
> This probably means the backend terminated abnormally
> before or while processing the request.
> The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Succeeded.
First you should run VACUUM analyze on that database, or at least on those 2
tables. Check with EXPLAIN to see how much better the queries get after the
analyze.
> What can I do? I'm guessing that I could change a configuration parameter
> or
> something like that, but I don't know.
There are so many parameters to change, that I have to tell you to go and see
the "PostgreSQL 7.1 Administrator's Guide".
Saludos... :-)
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