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To: henk de wit <henk53602@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Huge amount of memory consumed during transaction 
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Comments: In-reply-to henk de wit <henk53602@hotmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:26:59 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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henk de wit <henk53602@hotmail.com> writes:
> I'm not exactly sure what to look for in the log. I'll do my best though an=
> d see what I can come up with.

It'll be a bunch of lines like

TopMemoryContext: 49832 total in 6 blocks; 8528 free (6 chunks); 41304 used

immediately in front of the out-of-memory ERROR report.

			regards, tom lane