You could always change the size of the RDS instance to something larger than what it currently is running, even just
temporarily.
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> On Oct 19, 2021, at 6:01 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@gmail.com> writes:
>> In an RDS instance with 16GB RAM, I ran a long query which started by
>> setting temp_buffers to 16GB, so I think I plum ran out of memory, but can
>> anyone point me in a different direction if the following log messages
>> indicate something else is awry?
>
> Yeah, this:
>
>> 2021-10-19 21:10:37 UTC::@:[24752]:LOG: server process (PID 25813) was
>> terminated by signal 9: Killed
>
> almost certainly indicates the Linux OOM killer at work. If you were
> running your own system I'd point you to [1], but I doubt that RDS
> lets you put your hands on the relevant knobs.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/kernel-resources.html#LINUX-MEMORY-OVERCOMMIT
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