Hi Pavel, What kind of example do you need? I cant give you the actual data I have in the table, but I can give you an example query and the schema attached below. From there, I would just put in 2 million rows worth 1.2 Gigs of data. Average size of the the extended columns (using the pg_column_size function) in bytes are:
guid: 33 name: 2.41 currency: 4 fields: 120.32 example query: -- find duplicate records using a guid select guid, array_agg(id) from orders group by guid; example schema: Table "public.things" Column | Type | Modifiers | Storage | Stats target | Description ------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+----------+--------------+------------- id | integer | not null default nextval('things_id_seq'::regclass) | plain | | version | integer | not null | plain | | created_at | timestamp without time zone | not null | plain | | updated_at | timestamp without time zone | not null | plain | | foo_id | integer | not null | plain | | bar_id | integer | not null | plain | | baz_id | integer | not null | plain | | guid | character varying | not null | extended | | name | character varying | not null | extended | | price | numeric(12,2) | not null | main | | currency | character varying | not null | extended | | amount | integer | not null | plain | | the_date | date | not null | plain | | fields | hstore | | extended | | Indexes: "things_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id) "things_foo_id_idx" btree (foo_id) "things_bar_id_idx" btree (bar_id) "things_baz_id_idx" btree (baz_id) "things_guid_uidx" UNIQUE, btree (guid) "things_lpad_lower_name_eidx" btree (lpad(lower(name::text), 10, '0'::text)) "things_price_idx" btree (price) Foreign-key constraints: "things_foo_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (foo_id) REFERENCES foos(id) "things_bar_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (bar_id) REFERENCES bars(id) "things_baz_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (baz_id) REFERENCES bazs(id) Triggers: timestamps_trig BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON things FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE timestamps_tfun() Let me know if you need anything else. Thanks, On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:29 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello > > please, can you send some example or test? > > Regards > > Pavel Stehule > > > 2013/8/19 Robert Sosinski <rsosin...@ticketevolution.com> > >> When using array_agg on a large table, memory usage seems to spike up >> until Postgres crashes with the following error: >> >> 2013-08-17 18:41:02 UTC [2716]: [2] WARNING: terminating connection >> because of crash of another server process >> 2013-08-17 18:41:02 UTC [2716]: [3] DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded >> this server process to roll back the current transaction and exit, because >> another server process exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared >> memory. >> 2013-08-17 18:41:02 UTC [2716]: [4] HINT: In a moment you should be able >> to reconnect to the database and repeat your command. >> >> I've definitely isolated it down to using array_agg, as when I changed >> the query to use string_agg, it worked fine. I also tried using array_agg >> on a few different queries, all yielding the same issue. Swapping in >> string_agg fixed the issue once more. >> >> This particular table has over 2 million rows and is 1.2 Gigs, and when I >> ran the query while viewing htop, the virtual size of the Postgres >> process ballooned to 13.9G until crashing. >> >> The version of Postgres I am using is: PostgreSQL 9.2.4 on >> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-2ubuntu1) >> 4.7.2, 64-bit >> >> Any help would be much appreciated, thanks! >> >> -Robert >> > >