Re: ERROR: Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc(188)

Is this a view?

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Tilo Schwarz wrote:

> Dear Postgresql gurus,
>
> (somehow my first two send attempts of this message didn't get through ...
> third try)
>
> I have a problem (7.3.1 on linux) with a query eating all my memory. First it
> takes 2G RAM and then 2G swap. Now I saw, that 7.3.2 addresses some memory
> issues, could my problem solved by upgrading to 7.3.2?
>
> Thanks a lot, description follows
>
>     Tilo
>
> (the query involves a table with 33925848 rows, but only a few thousand rows
> should be returned)
>
>
> tschwarz=# explain select * from feature_point_delta_avg where sequence_id
> =325058;
> QUERY PLAN
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --- --------------------------
> Subquery Scan feature_point_delta_avg  (cost=1541301.27..1551163.80
> rows=43833 width=28)
> ->  Aggregate  (cost=1541301.27..1551163.80 rows=43833 width=28)
> ->  Group  (cost=1541301.27..1544588.78 rows=438334 width=28)
> ->  Sort  (cost=1541301.27..1542397.11 rows=438334
> width=28)
> Sort Key: trace.sequence_id, trace.trace_id
> ->  Hash Join  (cost=3424.87..1488310.69 rows=438334
> width=28)
> Hash Cond: ("outer".image_id =
> "inner".image_id)
> ->  Hash Join  (cost=2797.82..1383310.62
> rows=13185846 width=20)
> Hash Cond: ("outer".trace_id =
> "inner".trace_id)
> ->  Seq Scan on d_kalman
> (cost=0.00..1046060.48 rows=33925848 width=12)
> ->  Hash  (cost=2782.76..2782.76
> rows=6025 width=8)
> ->  Seq Scan on trace
> (cost=0.00..2782.76 rows=6025 width=8)
> Filter: (sequence_id =
> 325058)
> ->  Hash  (cost=624.26..624.26 rows=1111
> width=8)
> ->  Seq Scan on label_data ld
> (cost=0.00..624.26 rows=1111 width=8)
> Filter: ((right_eye IS NULL) AND
> (visible_features(ld.*) > 0))
> (16 rows)
>
> Time: 80.24 ms
> tschwarz=# select * from feature_point_delta_avg where sequence_id
> =325058;
>
> [... waiting for ca. 10 minutes ...]
>
> ERROR:  Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc(188)
> tschwarz=# show sort_mem ;
> sort_mem
> ----------
> 16384
> (1 row)
>
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