From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: ow <oneway_111@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Out of memory error
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:39:23 -0400
Message-ID: <15270.1087349963@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040615202424.75345.qmail@web53908.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20040615202424.75345.qmail@web53908.mail.yahoo.com>
ow <oneway_111@yahoo.com> writes:
> insert into tableA
> select * from tableB
> where testdate >= '2000-01-01' and testdate <= '2002-12-31'
> What's happening is that pgSql gradually takes all (well, almost) physical and
> swap memory and then, I think, is getting killed by the kernel.
> 1) Is this normal?
No.
Perhaps you have a bunch of triggers (including foreign-key checks) on
tableA? If so it'd probably be best to drop them temporarily.
The only reason I can think for this to eat memory is if the
pending-trigger-events queue is growing ...
regards, tom lane
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