Re: Massive memory use for star query

Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkwood@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:

> Here's a simplified example using synthetic data (see attached to
> generate if desired):

Doesn't work for me:

kgrittn@kgrittn-desktop:~/work/starjoin$ ./gendata.pl
generate cat
cannot open cat.dat: No such file or directory at ./gendata.pl line
17.

> Here's what a ps listing looks like:
>
> VSZ         RSS         SZ        CMD
> 1849524 1793680 1791144 postgres: postgres test [local] EXPLAIN

If you run pmap -d on the pid, what does the last line look like?

-Kevin