Re: Would like to know how analyze works technically

>>>> Running "analyze verbose;" and watching top, the system starts out
>>>> using no swap data and about 4GB of cached memory and about 1GB of
>>>> used memory. As it runs, the amount of used RAM climbs, and
>>>> eventually the used swap memory increases to 100% and after being at
>>>> that level for a couple of minutes, the analyze function crashes and
>>>> indicates "server closed the connection unexpectedly."
>>>
>>> ANALYZE is supposed to work in a constrained amount of memory, though
>>>  that amount depends quite a bit on what the data is and what you've
>>> got the statistics target set to.
>>>
>>> We've heard reports that there are memory leaks in (some versions
>>> of?) PostGIS's analyze support.  Whether that would apply to you would
>>> depend on whether you're using PostGIS.
>>>
>>> Hard to say more without a lot more concrete info about what your
>>> data is, what PG version you're using, etc.
>>>
>>> regards, tom lane
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the response Tom.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Don't know if I'm on the right track with this, but what is
> maintenance_work_mem set to on this system?
>
> --
> Bill Moran
>