PostgreSQL JDBC - Long Running Stored Procedure - Out of Memory

Hello.

I have a strange problem when calling a long running stored procedure
from Java JDBC.

process_import_item() is a stored procedure in PostgreSQL which has
boolean as return type.

When I call the stored procedure manually (via psql), it takes about
15 minutes to run.

When I call the stored procedure from Java/JDBC, it runs for some
hours and then crashes the Virtual Machine with an
"java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space".

My code is the following (autocommit is enabled):
...
            final CallableStatement st1 = msCon.prepareCall("{call
process_import_item()}");
            st1.execute();
...

The stack trace is the following:

13:47:33,588 ERROR [STDERR] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
13:47:33,589 ERROR [STDERR]     at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:2786)
13:47:36,095 ERROR [STDERR]     at
java.lang.StringCoding.safeTrim(StringCoding.java:64)
13:47:36,096 ERROR [STDERR]     at
java.lang.StringCoding.access$300(StringCoding.java:34)
13:47:36,096 ERROR [STDERR]     at
java.lang.StringCoding$StringEncoder.encode(StringCoding.java:251)
13:47:38,585 ERROR [STDERR]     at
java.lang.StringCoding.encode(StringCoding.java:272)
13:47:38,585 ERROR [STDERR]     at java.lang.String.getBytes(String.java:947)
13:47:41,088 ERROR [STDERR]     at
java.io.UnixFileSystem.getBooleanAttributes0(Native Method)
13:47:41,088 ERROR [STDERR]     at
java.io.UnixFileSystem.getBooleanAttributes(UnixFileSystem.java:228)
13:47:46,096 ERROR [STDERR]     at java.io.File.isDirectory(File.java:754)
13:47:48,602 ERROR [STDERR]     at
org.jboss.net.protocol.file.FileURLLister.listFiles(FileURLLister.java:127)
13:47:48,602 ERROR [STDERR]     at
org.jboss.net.protocol.file.FileURLLister.listMembers(FileURLLister.java:75)
13:47:51,115 ERROR [STDERR]     at
org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:497)
13:47:53,614 ERROR [STDERR]     at
org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:263)
13:47:56,113 ERROR [STDERR]     at
org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.loop(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:274)
13:47:56,113 ERROR [STDERR]     at
org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.run(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:225)
13:49:05,456 ERROR [[CommandServlet]] Servlet.service() for servlet
CommandServlet threw exception
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
        at java.util.Arrays.copyOfRange(Arrays.java:3209)
        at java.lang.String.<init>(String.java:216)
        at org.postgresql.util.ServerErrorMessage.<init>(ServerErrorMessage.java:49)
        at org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.receiveNoticeResponse(QueryExecutorImpl.java:1476)
        at org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.processResults(QueryExecutorImpl.java:1280)
        at org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.execute(QueryExecutorImpl.java:175)
        at org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement.execute(AbstractJdbc2Statement.java:389)
        at org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement.executeWithFlags(AbstractJdbc2Statement.java:330)
        at org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement.execute(AbstractJdbc2Statement.java:321)
        at myapplication.processData(CrmCommandHandler.java:337)

Additionally, during the hours while the stored procedure runs, the
Java VM grows slowly but steadly in the memory usage (some Mb per
minute).

Am I doing something wrong? Where should I look to diagnose/fix this issue?

Thank you!

My setup:
 PostgreSQL 8.2.7-1 with postgresql-8.2-507.jdbc4.jar

java -version:
 java version "1.6.0"
 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b105)
 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.6.0-b105, mixed mode, sharing)

Linux 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 22:56:21 UTC 2008 i686
GNU/Linux (Ubuntu 8.10).



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