postmaster out of memory.... - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joe Maldonado
Subject postmaster out of memory....
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Responses Re: postmaster out of memory....  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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Hello all!

    when asking postgres to aggregate totals accross 4.5 or so Million records.  The visible effect is that the
postmasterwill grow to the 3GB process limit and die without a core :(. 
I have seen this same behaviour discussed back in 6.5 archives in the thread with subject "[SQL] How to avoid "Out of
memory"using aggregate functions? ".  Is this fixed? Why is the postmaster exceeding it's 102MB sort mem size when
doingthese queries and not paging out the data? 

-Joe Maldonado

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