Re: [PERFORM] Postgres backend using huge amounts of ram

2004-11-26 Thread Gary Doades
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 partitions

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres backend using huge amounts of ram

2004-11-26 Thread Tom Lane
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

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres backend using huge amounts of ram

2004-11-26 Thread Richard Huxton
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! Oops

[PERFORM] Postgres backend using huge amounts of ram

2004-11-25 Thread Gary Doades
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: cre