Re: nested hstore - large insert crashes server

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
Cc: Christian Kruse <christian(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru, obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com, andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net
Subject: Re: nested hstore - large insert crashes server
Date: 2014-02-04 19:17:06
Message-ID: 20140204191706.GU2921@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Erik Rijkers (er(at)xs4all(dot)nl) wrote:
> On Tue, February 4, 2014 18:56, Christian Kruse wrote:
> > On 04/02/14 17:41, Erik Rijkers wrote:
> >> 2014-02-04 10:34:25.376 CET 29133 LOG: server process (PID 29459) was terminated by signal 9: Killed
> >
> > Did you check if this was the OOM killer? Should be logged in dmesg.
>
> I would be surprised if it wasn't. (no access to that machine at the moment)
>
> How do we regard such crashes? It seems to me this was rather eaasily 'provoked' (for want of a better word).
>
> I am inclined to blame the patch...

It sounds like there is at least some investigation which should happen
here to see why we're using so much memory (well beyond work_mem and
even maint_work_mem it sounds like), but it would also be good to have
the machine reconfigured to not allow OOM killing.

Thanks,

Stephen

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