Re: PostgreSQL Process memory architecture

* Atri Sharma (atri.jiit@gmail.com) wrote:
> Yes, too many indexes wont hurt much.BTW,wont making too many indexes
> on columns that probably dont have as many values as to deserve
> them(so,essentially,indiscriminately making indexes) hurt the
> performance/memory usage?

I'd expect the performance issue would be from planner time more than
memory usage- but if there is a serious memory usage issue here, then
it'd be valuable to have a test case showing what's happening.  We may
not be releasing the sys cache in some cases or otherwise have a bug in
this area.
Thanks,
    Stephen