Re: ERROR: Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc(188)

Are you also using 7.3.1?

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> I happened to catch pgsql is the act:
> 14692 jnasby     1  10    0 1471M  738M cpu3   52:18 48.02% postgres
>
> Seems like there's definetly some kind of memory leak.
>
> shared_buffers = 5000           # min max_connections*1 or 16, 8KB each
> #max_fsm_relations = 1000       # min 10, fsm is free space map, ~40 bytes
> #max_fsm_pages = 10000          # min 1000, fsm is free space map, ~6 bytes
> #max_locks_per_transaction = 64 # min 10
> wal_buffers = 10
> sort_mem = 30000                # min 64, size in KB
> vacuum_mem = 16000              # min 1024, size in KB
> effective_cache_size = 100000   # typically 8KB each
>
> This is on a sun box with 1G of memory. Also, forgot to describe the
> table I'm inserting into:
>
>                                 Table "public.zip4"
>    Column    |   Type   |                         Modifiers
> -------------+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------
>  zip4_id     | integer  | not null default
> nextval('public.zip4_zip4_id_seq'::text)
>  carrt_id    | integer  | not null
>  add_on_low  | smallint | not null
>  add_on_high | smallint | not null
> Indexes: zip4_pkey primary key btree (zip4_id),
>          zip4_carrt_id_key unique btree (carrt_id, add_on_low, add_on_high)
> Check constraints: "zip4_add_on_low" ((add_on_low >= -1) AND (add_on_low <= 9999))
>                    "zip4_add_on_high" ((add_on_high >= -1) AND (add_on_high <= 9999))
>                    "$1" (add_on_low <= add_on_high)
> Foreign Key constraints: $2 FOREIGN KEY (carrt_id) REFERENCES carrt(carrt_id) ON UPDATE NO ACTION ON DELETE NO ACTION
>
> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 02:15:17PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>
>>On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 01:29:10PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 06:21:28PM +0200, Tilo Schwarz wrote:
>>>
>>>>Dear Postgresql gurus,
>>>>
>>>>I have a problem (7.3.1 on linux) with a query eating all my memory. First it
>>>>take 2G RAM and then 2G swap. Now I saw, that 7.3.2 addresses some memory
>>>>issues, could my problem solved by upgrading to 7.3.2?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks a lot, description follows
>>>>
>>>>    Tilo
>>>>
>>>>(the query involves a table with 33925848 rows, but only a few thousand rows
>>>>should be returned)
>>>
>>I'm having the same problem...
>>
>>INSERT INTO zip4 (carrt_id
>>            , add_on_low
>>            , add_on_high)
>>    SELECT cr.carrt_id
>>            , to_number(
>>                    CASE WHEN coalesce(zip_add_on_low_no, zip_add_on_high_no) LIKE '%ND'
>>                        THEN '-1'
>>                        ELSE coalesce(zip_add_on_low_no, zip_add_on_high_no)
>>                    END
>>                , '0')
>>            , to_number(
>>                    CASE WHEN zip_add_on_high_no LIKE '%ND'
>>                        THEN '-1'
>>                        ELSE zip_add_on_high_no
>>                    END
>>                , '0')
>>        FROM zip_carrt zc, postal_code pc, carrt cr
>>        WHERE pc.postal_code = zc.zip_code
>>            AND cr.postal_code_id = pc.postal_code_id
>>            AND cr.car_rt_code = zc.carrier_route_id
>>;
>>ERROR:  Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc(108)
>>
>>usps=# \d zip_carrt
>>               Table "public.zip_carrt"
>>       Column       |         Type         | Modifiers
>>--------------------+----------------------+-----------
>> zip_code           | character varying(5) |
>> carrier_route_id   | character varying(4) |
>> zip_add_on_low_no  | character varying(4) |
>> zip_add_on_high_no | character varying(4) |
>>
>>usps=# \d postal_code
>>                                            Table "public.postal_code"
>>     Column     |         Type          |
>>Modifiers
>>----------------+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> postal_code_id | integer               | not null default
>>nextval('public.postal_code_postal_code_id_seq'::text)
>> postal_code    | character varying(10) | not null
>> state_code     | character(2)          |
>>Indexes: postal_code_pkey primary key btree (postal_code_id),
>>         postal_code_postal_code_key unique btree (postal_code)
>>Foreign Key constraints: $1 FOREIGN KEY (state_code) REFERENCES state(state_code) ON UPDATE NO ACTION ON DELETE NO
ACTION
>>
>>usps=# \d carrt
>>                                        Table "public.carrt"
>>     Column     |         Type         |
>>Modifiers
>>----------------+----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------
>> carrt_id       | integer              | not null default
>>nextval('public.carrt_carrt_id_seq'::text)
>> postal_code_id | integer              | not null
>> car_rt_code    | character varying(5) | not null
>>Indexes: carrt_pkey primary key btree (carrt_id),
>>         carrt_postal_code_id_key unique btree (postal_code_id,
>>car_rt_code)
>>Foreign Key constraints: $1 FOREIGN KEY (postal_code_id) REFERENCES postal_code(postal_code_id) ON UPDATE NO ACTION
ONDELETE NO ACTION 
>>
>>usps=# select count(*) from postal_code;
>> count
>>-------
>> 42678
>>(1 row)
>>
>>usps=# select count(*) from carrt;
>> count
>>--------
>> 627814
>>
>>zip_carrt is ~35M rows, and zip4 is empty.
>>--
>>Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!)                    jim@nasby.net
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