Re: Large join runs out of memory in 8.1

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 03:56:51PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

> Joe Sunday <sunday@csh.rit.edu> writes:
> > 8.1 grows until it uses about 4 GB, at which point it dies with the
> > following error:
> > ERROR:  out of memory
> > DETAIL:  Failed on request of size 8224.
>
> This error should result in dumping a list of per-context memory usage
> into the postmaster log ... could we have a look at that?

Here you go:

TopMemoryContext: 1020440 total in 64 blocks; 485960 free (475 chunks); 534480 used
Local Buffer Lookup Table: 8192 total in 1 blocks; 808 free (0 chunks); 7384 used
Operator class cache: 8192 total in 1 blocks; 4936 free (0 chunks); 3256 used
TopTransactionContext: 8192 total in 1 blocks; 5784 free (0 chunks); 2408 used
MessageContext: 57344 total in 3 blocks; 28096 free (2 chunks); 29248 used
smgr relation table: 8192 total in 1 blocks; 2872 free (0 chunks); 5320 used
Portal hash: 8192 total in 1 blocks; 3912 free (0 chunks); 4280 used
PortalMemory: 8192 total in 1 blocks; 8040 free (0 chunks); 152 used
PortalHeapMemory: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 896 free (0 chunks); 128 used
ExecutorState: -346079744 total in 476747 blocks; 1498632 free (15 chunks); -347578376 used
HashTableContext: 4251696 total in 5 blocks; 57296 free (21 chunks); 4194400 used
HashBatchContext: 65696 total in 1 blocks; 0 free (0 chunks); 65696 used
ExprContext: 0 total in 0 blocks; 0 free (0 chunks); 0 used
ExprContext: 0 total in 0 blocks; 0 free (0 chunks); 0 used
ExprContext: 0 total in 0 blocks; 0 free (0 chunks); 0 used
ExprContext: 0 total in 0 blocks; 0 free (0 chunks); 0 used
Relcache by OID: 8192 total in 1 blocks; 3376 free (0 chunks); 4816 used
CacheMemoryContext: 516096 total in 6 blocks; 148088 free (2 chunks); 368008 used
pg_shdepend_depender_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 256 free (0 chunks); 768 used
pg_shdepend_reference_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used
pg_depend_depender_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 256 free (0 chunks); 768 used
pg_depend_reference_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 256 free (0 chunks); 768 used
b_idx1: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used
a_idx1: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used
pg_index_indrelid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used
pg_type_typname_nsp_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used
pg_type_oid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used
pg_trigger_tgrelid_tgname_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used
pg_statistic_relid_att_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used
pg_auth_members_member_role_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used
pg_auth_members_role_member_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used
pg_rewrite_rel_rulename_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used
pg_proc_proname_args_nsp_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 256 free (0 chunks); 768 used
pg_proc_oid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used
pg_operator_oprname_l_r_n_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 192 free (0 chunks); 832 used
pg_operator_oid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used
pg_opclass_oid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used
pg_opclass_am_name_nsp_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 256 free (0 chunks); 768 used
pg_namespace_oid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used
pg_namespace_nspname_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used
pg_language_oid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used
pg_language_name_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used
pg_inherits_relid_seqno_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used
pg_index_indexrelid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used
pg_authid_oid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used
pg_authid_rolname_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used
pg_database_datname_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used
pg_conversion_oid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used
pg_conversion_name_nsp_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used
pg_conversion_default_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 192 free (0 chunks); 832 used
pg_class_relname_nsp_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used
pg_class_oid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used
pg_cast_source_target_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used
pg_attribute_relid_attnum_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used
pg_attribute_relid_attnam_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used
pg_amproc_opc_proc_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 256 free (0 chunks); 768 used
pg_amop_opr_opc_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 328 free (0 chunks); 696 used
pg_amop_opc_strat_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 256 free (0 chunks); 768 used
pg_aggregate_fnoid_index: 1024 total in 1 blocks; 392 free (0 chunks); 632 used
MdSmgr: 8192 total in 1 blocks; 6976 free (0 chunks); 1216 used
LockTable (locallock hash): 8192 total in 1 blocks; 3912 free (0 chunks); 4280 used
Timezones: 48408 total in 2 blocks; 5968 free (0 chunks); 42440 used
ErrorContext: 8192 total in 1 blocks; 8176 free (3 chunks); 16 used
ERROR:  out of memory
DETAIL:  Failed on request of size 8224.
STATEMENT:  SELECT a.key_a, a.key_b,
      a.column1, a.column2, a.column3,
      b.local_a, b.local_b
    INTO TEMP x
    FROM a a, b b
    WHERE a.key_a = b.key_a
      AND a.key_b = b.key_b
      AND b.local_a is not null;
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Joe Sunday <sunday@csh.rit.edu>  http://www.csh.rit.edu/~sunday/
Computer Science House, Rochester Inst. Of Technology