Thread: postmaster out of memory....

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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On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 01:45:07PM -0500, Joe Maldonado wrote:
> Hello all!
>
>     when asking postgres to aggregate totals accross 4.5 or so Million
>     records.  The visible effect is that the postmaster will 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 doing these queries and not paging out the data?

What version? We aggregate million of value vairly often. What
aggregate?

Have you run ANALYZE recently?
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