Re: [GENERAL] Reducing memory usage of insert into select operations?

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> wrote:
> Redhat 4
> postgresql 8.3.3
> Memory: 12GB
>
> While doing a couple of operations of the type
> insert into <table> select from <some other table>
>
> The OS triggered the out of memory killer (oom-killer).

Is this a 32-bit installation or 64-bit? 3GB of shared_buffers is way
too big for a 32-bit setup.

-Doug

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