You probably should upgrade to 7.1.2.  I think alot of 
memory leaking conditions were fixed between 7.0 and 7.1.

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, george young wrote:

> [Postgresql 7.0.3, intel Linux, 4 cpu, 2 GB RAM ]
> 
> create table stepparams(step_proc text, name text, txt text, units text, step_ver 
>int2, width int2,
>                         xpos int2, param_edit int2, xlevel int2, mandatory int2, 
>primary key(step_proc));
> 
> The table stepparams has 15799 rows, 387 distinct values of step_proc.
> 
> For each value stepparams.step_proc e.g. 'foo', there should be a postgres table 
>named "s_foo".
> I want to check this for consistancy, i.e. find any stepparams.step_proc that does 
>not have a corresponding table.
> 
> I thought this was a straight forward query:
>   select distinct step_proc 
>     from stepparams sp 
>     where not exists (select * from pg_class where text(relname)= 's_' || 
>sp.step_proc);
> but, after a while I get an error:  FATAL 1: Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc() 
> pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
> [indeed the backend had grown to 400MB, 173MB resident!]


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