Re: BUG #18573: Analyze command consumes several GB of memory - more than analyzed table size

=?UTF-8?B?QWxlxaEgWmVsZW7DvQ==?= <zeleny.ales@gmail.com> writes:
> the default statistics target is:
>  2500

> So I've changed it to the default:
> powa=# ALTER TABLE testcase_t3 ALTER COLUMN records SET STATISTICS 100;

> The memory consumption drops down to ~ 1.1GB
> So you were right, thanks!

Yeah, the array statistics collection code is a bit of a memory hog
compared to most other data types.  I'm not sure that's a bug exactly;
there are more kinds of stats that we want to collect for arrays, such
as per-element stats.

            regards, tom lane