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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: One PG process eating more than 40GB of RAM and getting killed by
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Jean-Christophe Boggio <postgresql@thefreecat.org> writes:
> You can find the corresponding logs attached.

Your query seems to be creating TupleSort contexts and then leaking
them, which is surely a bug.  Can you make a self-contained test
case that reproduces this?

			regards, tom lane