From: Alessandro Ipe <Alessandro.Ipe@meteo.be>
To: Torsten Förtsch <torsten.foertsch@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Excessive memory used for INSERT
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:42:23 +0100
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On Thursday 18 December 2014 08:51:47 Torsten Förtsch wrote:
> On 17/12/14 16:14, Alessandro Ipe wrote:
> > 2014-12-15 17:54:07 GMT LOG: server process (PID 21897) was
terminated
> > by signal 9: Killed
>
> since it was killed by SIGKILL, maybe it's the kernel's OOM killer?
Indeed and this hopefully prevented postgresql to crash my whole system due to
RAM exhaustion. But the problem remains : why an INSERT requires that huge
amount of memory ?
Regards,
A.
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