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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Sort causes system to freeze
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:34:13 -0500
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Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com> writes:
> Maybe this is an obviously dumb thing to do, but it looked reasonable
> to me.  The problem is, the seemingly simple sort below causes a
> fairly powerful computer to completely freeze for 5-10 minutes.

trace_sort output might be informative.

			regards, tom lane

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