$result = pg_query($db, "SELECT * FROM big_table");
you are reading a big result (as I suspect from big_table) into memory. It is perfectly normal that this uses large amounts of memory.
[it would be rather suspicious if loading a big file / big resultset would not use big amounts of memory]
Harald
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