(13/09/06 21:06), Tim Kane wrote:
Hi all,

I have a fairly simple query, running on a particularly large table.  For
illustration:

echo "select * from really_big_table;" | psql my_database > /dev/null


When I monitor the memory usage of the psql session, it continually grows.
In fact, for this particularly large table ­ it grows to the point of
consuming all swap, before the OOM killer takes steps to resolve it.
Clearly, this isn't what I'd like to happen.


My settings are:
Postgresql 9.1.9
work_mem = 256MB
effective_cache_size = 12GB
shared_buffers = 6GB

I have 24GB physical ram to play with.


This is a client side problem (not server size).
See the description of FETCH_COUNT, please.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/app-psql.html


echo "select * from really_big_table;" | psql --variable=FETCH_COUNT=100 my_database > /dev/null


Regards,





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