Re: Memory exhaustion due to temporary tables?

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Thomas Carroll <tomfecarroll(at)yahoo(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Memory exhaustion due to temporary tables?
Date: 2018-12-10 20:04:41
Message-ID: 5039683d856d06b9cbfe20da029e274216558b26.camel@cybertec.at
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Thomas Carroll wrote:
> We have a situation where a long-persistent Postgres connection consumes more
> and more memory. If ignored, we eventually get “Cannot allocate memory”
> errors in the Postgres log. If still ignored, the box will eventually crash.
> This takes about 3 weeks to happen. It issues a call to a single function
> about once every 15 seconds. What can I do to prevent this outcome?

There should be a memory context dump in the log file.
What does it look like?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com

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