Re: Out of Memory errors are frustrating as heck!

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Gunther <raj(at)gusw(dot)net>, pgsql-performance(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Out of Memory errors are frustrating as heck!
Date: 2019-04-20 20:26:34
Message-ID: 13431.1555791994@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Considering how rare this issue likely is, we need to be looking for a
> solution that does not break the common case.

Agreed. What I think we need to focus on next is why the code keeps
increasing the number of batches. It seems like there must be an undue
amount of data all falling into the same bucket ... but if it were simply
a matter of a lot of duplicate hash keys, the growEnabled shutoff
heuristic ought to trigger.

regards, tom lane

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