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Re: Odd out of memory problem.

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-03-26T16:59:05Z
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On 26.03.2012 19:51, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net>  wrote:
>>         Combo CIDs: 755490840 total in 100 blocks; 5161072 free (381
>>    chunks); 750329768 used
>
> I think you'll have to catch Heikki's attention to get a good answer to this.
>
> Is it possible this job is inserting and then updating (or deleteing)
> the row it just inserted and doing a large number of such
> insert/update operations all within the same transaction? Or perhaps
> it's updating the same row over and over again?

.. and all that in different subtransactions.

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