Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] Large database

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jim Mercer <jim(at)reptiles(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] Large database
Date: 1999-08-17 20:31:38
Message-ID: 22816.934921898@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> do you know why vacuum can consume an enormous amount of core when cleaning
>> a large table?

> Can someone comment on the high memory usage of vacuum?

First thing that comes to mind is memory leaks for palloc'd data
types...

What exactly is the declaration of the table that's causing the problem?

regards, tom lane

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