On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:23:52PM -0600, Ed L. wrote: > On Wednesday September 29 2004 5:17, Tom Lane wrote: > > > > > > 2004-09-29 18:14:53.621 [520] ERROR: Memory exhausted in > > > AllocSetAlloc(1189) > > > > > > Analyze: 132263832 total in 27 blocks; 2984 free (35 chunks); 132260848 > > > used > > > > Either increase your per-process memory limit, or reduce the statistics > > targets for this table ... > > Can you explain a little more of how you interpret the numbers above to draw > your conclusion?
I just means that, from the operating system POV, there are 132263832 bytes in use. The rest is Pg internal bookkeeping that doesn't help you any. -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) "Uno combate cuando es necesario... ¡no cuando está de humor! El humor es para el ganado, o para hacer el amor, o para tocar el baliset. No para combatir." (Gurney Halleck) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match