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To: edoardo.innocenti@savinodelbene.com
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Subject: Re: TopMemoryContext - Configuration Mistake? 
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Comments: In-reply-to Edoardo Innocenti <edoardo.innocenti@savinodelbene.com>
	message dated "Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:45:19 +0200"
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:59:14 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Edoardo Innocenti <edoardo.innocenti@savinodelbene.com> writes:
> I got the following error during a select query.<br>

What was the query, what does EXPLAIN show as the plan for it,
and which PG version is your server exactly?

>   MessageContext: 2042626048 total in 256 blocks; 16072 free (7
> chunks); 2042609976 used<br>

This looks like it could be a memory leak, but we'd need to be able
to reproduce the problem in order to investigate or fix it.

			regards, tom lane