You could always change the size of the RDS instance to something larger than what it currently is running, even just temporarily. Sent from my iPad > On Oct 19, 2021, at 6:01 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> In an RDS instance with 16GB RAM, I ran a long query which started by >> setting temp_buffers to 16GB, so I think I plum ran out of memory, but can >> anyone point me in a different direction if the following log messages >> indicate something else is awry? > > Yeah, this: > >> 2021-10-19 21:10:37 UTC::@:[24752]:LOG: server process (PID 25813) was >> terminated by signal 9: Killed > > almost certainly indicates the Linux OOM killer at work. If you were > running your own system I'd point you to [1], but I doubt that RDS > lets you put your hands on the relevant knobs. > > regards, tom lane > > [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/kernel-resources.html#LINUX-MEMORY-OVERCOMMIT > >
