| From: | Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru> |
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| To: | strk(at)refractions(dot)net |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: GiST memory usage |
| Date: | 2005-08-15 14:02:10 |
| Message-ID: | 4300A062.3000405@sigaev.ru |
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> Is there a way to detect where is memory hold ?
Look at postgis code. We constructed rtree_gist index over 1e9 rows (on 8.0 pgsql).
>
> Is there an index-specific memory context for use
> to early release memory blocks allocated during
> operations (didn't see any use of memory contexts
> in the contrib/rtree_gist) ?
8.1 pgsql has short lived memory context during index creation which resets
after every insert. 8.0 hasn't this feature, so user-defined function (GiST
interfface) should carefully clean memory.
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Teodor Sigaev E-mail: teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru
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