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Jim Nasby <jnasby@enova.com> writes:
> Is there a way to measure memory consumption during planning, short of something like strace? (I've got no dev tools available on our servers.)

Nothing built-in, I'm pretty sure.  You could probably add some
instrumentation, but that would require running modified executables ...

			regards, tom lane


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