Re: Out of memory error in 8.1.0 Win32

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Relyea, Mike" <Mike(dot)Relyea(at)xerox(dot)com>
Cc: "Todd A(dot) Cook" <tcook(at)blackducksoftware(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Qingqing Zhou" <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu>
Subject: Re: Out of memory error in 8.1.0 Win32
Date: 2006-06-22 19:23:56
Message-ID: 2762.1151004236@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Relyea, Mike" <Mike(dot)Relyea(at)xerox(dot)com> writes:
> I've zipped the results of EXPLAIN INSERT INTO "tblSummary" SELECT *
> FROM "qrySummary"; for my case. It's a zip file that I've renamed to
> .txt in order to get around the attachment being blocked by certain mail
> servers.

Egad, what a mess :-(. By my count you have 89 hash joins, 24 sorts,
and 8 hash aggregations in there. In total these will feel authorized
to use 121 times work_mem. Since you've got work_mem set to 256 meg,
an out-of-memory condition doesn't seem that surprising. You need to
make work_mem drastically smaller for this query. Or else break it down
into multiple steps.

regards, tom lane

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