Re: Out of swap space & memory

Ok,

This is a long shot but how are you executing your code?  In say a
pgadminIII sql window with the below entered line after line?

If so I believe it will be treated as one transaction.  With the default
settings postgres would have to keep track of everything done to be able
to rollback all the changes if it failed.  I would believe that would
force it to keep track of all 56 million rows combined in memory
(probably just the oid column - I am sure the other more experienced
postgresql wizards can verify) but still that can take a lot of
resources.

If by chance you are doing it one sweep try executing it in separate
steps so the commit can be executed.

Hopefully then you won't run out of resources then.

Are you doing a drop / create say everynight to update your data?  If so
perhaps using TRUNCATE octanenights might be more efficient.

If you must drop a full table perhaps a vacuum should be done
afterwards???

Mike

On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 21:32, Kevin Bartz wrote:
> Mike, thanks so much for your reply. I'm sorry for not showing you my SQL. I
> didn't show it because I couldn't manage to boil it down to something
> reproducible that everyone could try. But here's what it was:
>
> drop table octanenights;
> CREATE TABLE octanenights (member_id varchar(100), campaign_id varchar(100),
> catalog_type varchar(100), pushed int, delivered int, clicks int, opened
> int, month varchar(100), type1 int, type2 int, type3 int, type4 int, type5
> int);
>
> copy octanenights from
> '/home/kevin/octanenights/proc/uberfile/uberfile1.txt' null as '';
> copy octanenights from
> '/home/kevin/octanenights/proc/uberfile/uberfile2.txt' null as '';
> copy octanenights from
> '/home/kevin/octanenights/proc/uberfile/uberfile3.txt' null as '';
>
> select * from octanenights limit 10;
> alter table octanenights rename to octanenights_raw;
>
> -- de-dup the table
> select member_id, campaign_id, catalog_type, pushed, delivered, clicks,
> opened, month, type1, type2, type3, type4, type5
> into octanenights
> from octanenights_raw
> group by member_id, campaign_id, catalog_type, pushed, delivered, clicks,
>          opened, month, type1, type2, type3, type4, type5;
>
> Let me tell you a little about octanenights. It's a file of about 36,000,000
> rows, each describing an e-mail sent. Unfortunately, there are duplicate
> records scattered throughout the table, which I do not care about. One might
> suggest that I could've used uniq from the command line for this, but the
> data were not sorted originally and the duplicate records may be scattered
> anywhere in the table. The objective in the final line is to de-dup the
> table and place it into octanenights, leaving the original in
> octanenights_raw in case I ever need to refer back to it.
>
> MS SQL Server, with as much RAM and less clock speed, de-dups the table in
> about six minutes. The de-duped version has about 26,000,000 rows. The final
> line is where Postgres gobbles up all my swap and RAM and then conks out
> completely.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Maybe there was a better way to approach this
> problem? I'd be open to suggestions of any kind, since I'm still very, very
> new to the world of optimizing Postgres.
>
> Kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Manfred Koizar
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 3:04 AM
> To: Kevin Bartz
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Out of swap space & memory
>
> On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 20:08:45 -0700, "Kevin Bartz"
> <kbartz@loyaltymatrix.com> wrote:
> >is there any way I can run this query?
>
> What query?  You didn't show us your SQL.
>
> Servus
>  Manfred
>
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