"Indika Maligaspe" <indika(at)rezgateway(dot)com> writes:
> The problem is when we are querying a specific set of table (which all
> tables having over 100K of rows), the Postgres user process takes over or
> close 700MB of memory. This is just to return 3000 odd rows. Even though we
> have lot of data we still do not have that much to eat up this much of
> memory.
Playing with server-side settings won't have the slightest effect on a
client-side problem. I'd suggest asking about this on the pgsql-jdbc
list; they are more likely to have useful suggestions than backend
hackers will.
regards, tom lane