Re: nested hstore - large insert crashes server

* Erik Rijkers (er@xs4all.nl) wrote:
> On Tue, February 4, 2014 18:56, Christian Kruse wrote:
> > On 04/02/14 17:41, Erik Rijkers wrote:
> >> 2014-02-04 10:34:25.376 CET 29133 LOG:  server process (PID 29459) was terminated by signal 9: Killed
> >
> > Did you check if this was the OOM killer? Should be logged in dmesg.
>
> I would be surprised if it wasn't. (no access to that machine at the moment)
>
> How do we regard such crashes?  It seems to me this was rather eaasily 'provoked' (for want of a better word).
>
> I am inclined to blame the patch...

It sounds like there is at least some investigation which should happen
here to see why we're using so much memory (well beyond work_mem and
even maint_work_mem it sounds like), but it would also be good to have
the machine reconfigured to not allow OOM killing.
Thanks,        Stephen