Gary Doades wrote:
How much RAM can a single postgres backend use?
I've just loaded a moderately sized dataset into postgres and was
applying RI constraints to the tables (using pgadmin on windows). Part
way though I noticed the (single) postgres backend had shot up to using
300+ MB of my RAM!
Gary Doades [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've just loaded a moderately sized dataset into postgres and was
applying RI constraints to the tables (using pgadmin on windows). Part
way though I noticed the (single) postgres backend had shot up to using
300+ MB of my RAM!
Since I can't get an
Tom Lane wrote:
It's also worth noting that work_mem is temporarily set to
maintenance_work_mem, which you didn't tell us the value of:
It's left at the default. (16384).
This would be OK if that is all it used for this type of thing.
My recollection is that hash join chooses hash table
How much RAM can a single postgres backend use?
I've just loaded a moderately sized dataset into postgres and was
applying RI constraints to the tables (using pgadmin on windows). Part
way though I noticed the (single) postgres backend had shot up to using
300+ MB of my RAM!
The two tables are:
