Re: PostgreSQL (9.3 and 9.6) eats all memory when using many tables

From: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Hubert Lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com>, Pg Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL (9.3 and 9.6) eats all memory when using many tables
Date: 2016-06-13 14:22:51
Message-ID: CAMkU=1xLbimBPzP1xobkO-sUw2iELD3Emvn7zw0SwCYnkoSeSw@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 6:36 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Another problem, if the bloat is being driven by explicit PREPARE commands
> as you illustrate here, is that the backend doesn't get to silently
> discard prepared statements.

In the perl script he showed, the handle returned by $dbh->prepare is
not stored anywhere, so it should automatically get garbage collected
at the end of the Perl statement. The garbage collection should
trigger a destructor to send a "DEALLOCATE".

Cheers,

Jeff

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