Re: out of memory error

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Silvio Brandani" <silvio(dot)brandani(at)tech(dot)sdb(dot)it>
Subject: Re: out of memory error
Date: 2010-08-05 14:15:23
Message-ID: 931.1281017723@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
> Silvio Brandani <silvio(dot)brandani(at)tech(dot)sdb(dot)it> wrote:
>> a query on our production database give following errror:
>>
>> 2010-08-05 10:52:40 CEST [12106]: [278-1] ERROR: out of memory
>> 2010-08-05 10:52:40 CEST [12106]: [279-1] DETAIL: Failed on
>> request of size 48.

> What query? On what OS? Is this a 32-bit or 64-bit build of
> PostgreSQL? How long does it run before failing. What does memory
> usage look like before and during the run?

Also, out-of-memory should result in a memory usage map getting dumped
to the postmaster log. That would be useful to see too.

regards, tom lane

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