Re: Reducing memory usage of insert into select operations?

From: "Francisco Reyes" <lists(at)stringsutils(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reducing memory usage of insert into select operations?
Date: 2008-07-18 20:16:42
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On 3:55 pm 07/18/08 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > AfterTriggerEvents: 10553909248 total in 1268 blocks; 20432 free (6
> > chunks); 10553888816 used
>
> Well, that's definitely your problem ...

So I need to remove the foreign constraints?

> > HashBatchContext: 415227952 total in 59 blocks; 6589744
> > free (5 chunks); 408638208 used
>
> although these numbers seem way outta line too. What did you say you
> had work_mem set to?

Initially on the first crash it was 256MB. I believe at the time of the
crash I got the dump for it was down to 64MB or 8MB. I kept trying lower
values. Also tried reducing shared_buffers as someone suggested.

I will bump my shared_buffers back to 3GB and work_mem back to 64MB.

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