| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | ow <oneway_111(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Out of memory error |
| Date: | 2004-06-16 01:39:23 |
| Message-ID: | 15270.1087349963@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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ow <oneway_111(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> insert into tableA
> select * from tableB
> where testdate >= '2000-01-01' and testdate <= '2002-12-31'
> What's happening is that pgSql gradually takes all (well, almost) physical and
> swap memory and then, I think, is getting killed by the kernel.
> 1) Is this normal?
No.
Perhaps you have a bunch of triggers (including foreign-key checks) on
tableA? If so it'd probably be best to drop them temporarily.
The only reason I can think for this to eat memory is if the
pending-trigger-events queue is growing ...
regards, tom lane
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