Re: psql crashing - don't know why

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Brent Wood <b(dot)wood(at)niwa(dot)co(dot)nz>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: psql crashing - don't know why
Date: 2009-08-09 23:10:07
Message-ID: dcc563d10908091610s3d380b0etad80d5f4a5a499c@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Brent Wood<b(dot)wood(at)niwa(dot)co(dot)nz> wrote:
> Hi...
>
> I have a view across 3 tables, total some 5m rows.
>
> I can extract parts of the view, entire rows, with a where clause
> (eg: select * from view where cell_id=100000;)
>
> If I try to select the entire view (eg: select * from view;) it runs for a while then gives the error msg "Killed" and returns to the system prompt, having exited psql.
>
> The log says:
> 2009-08-10 00:19:01 NZST ben200601 woodb LOG:  could not send data to client: Broken pipe
> 2009-08-10 00:19:48 NZST ben200601 woodb LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
>

Most likely you're getting bitten by the OOM killer in linux.

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