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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: 2012-03-26T17:06:37Z
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On 26.03.2012 19:59, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> 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.

sorry, scratch that, they don't need to be in different subtransactions.

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