Re: Excessive memory used for INSERT

Hi,

My dtrigger definition is
CREATE TRIGGER msg_trigger BEFORE INSERT ON msg FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE msg_function();
so it seems that it is a BEFORE trigger.

To be totally honest, I have "really" limited knownledge in SQL and postgresql and all these were gathered from recipes found on the web...

Regards,

Alessandro.

On Wednesday 17 December 2014 10:41:31 Tom Lane wrote:
> Torsten Zuehlsdorff <mailinglists(at)toco-domains(dot)de> writes:
> > How many rows is "(SELECT * FROM upsert)" returning? Without knowing
> > more i would guess, that the result-set is very big and that could be
> > the reason for the memory usage.
>
> Result sets are not ordinarily accumulated on the server side.
>
> Alessandro didn't show the trigger definition, but my guess is that it's
> an AFTER trigger, which means that a trigger event record is accumulated
> in server memory for each inserted/updated row. If you're trying to
> update a huge number of rows in one command (or one transaction, if it's
> a DEFERRED trigger) you'll eventually run out of memory for the event
> queue.
>
> An easy workaround is to make it a BEFORE trigger instead. This isn't
> really nice from a theoretical standpoint; but as long as you make sure
> there are no other BEFORE triggers that might fire after it, it'll work
> well enough.
>
> Alternatively, you might want to reconsider the concept of updating
> hundreds of millions of rows in a single operation ...
>
> regards, tom lane