Hi, When I set shared buffers higher than 1GB, PostGreSQL doens't start. When my application crashes I receive a message "Out of memory" or "invalid sql statement". But the sql statement is ok - if I execute it in a table with less registers, it works and it is very simple. When I monitor the processes I can see that PostGreSQL allocs only 700 MB of memory, and my application 2GB. Total: 3GB. My program was made in Delphi 2006, and I use ADO via ODBC to connect to PostGreSQL. The structure of my table: CREATE TABLE "public"."fato_financeiro" ( "CODCLI" VARCHAR(6), "PREST" VARCHAR(4) NOT NULL, "NUMTRANSVENDA" VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL, "RECNUM" VARCHAR(8) NOT NULL, "CODFORNEC" VARCHAR(8), "TIPO" VARCHAR(2), "NUMDOC" VARCHAR(10), "PREST_1" VARCHAR(4), "VALOR" DOUBLE PRECISION, "DTEMISSAO" TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE, "DTVENC" TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE, "DTPAG" TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE, "VPAGO" DOUBLE PRECISION, "PAGO_PAG" VARCHAR(9), "ATRASADO" VARCHAR(3), CONSTRAINT "fato_financeiro_idx" PRIMARY KEY("PREST", "NUMTRANSVENDA", "RECNUM") ) WITHOUT OIDS; SQL statement: select fato_financeiro."TIPO", fato_financeiro."NUMDOC", fato_financeiro."PREST", fato_financeiro."NUMDOC", fato_financeiro."DTVENC", fato_financeiro."DTPAG", fato_financeiro."PAGO_PAG", fato_financeiro."ATRASADO", fato_financeiro."CODCLI", fato_financeiro."CODFORNEC", fato_financeiro."DTEMISSAO" from fato_financeiro Thanks, Cláudia. > claudia.amorim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> I'm having serious peformance problems with PostGreSQL and Windows Server 2003 >> Enterprise Edition. The PostgreSQL Server don't starts if I set the shared >> buffers high than >> 1GB. All my programs can use only 3 GB of RAM and I have 8GB of RAM. >> When I try to execute a query in a table about 4 milion registers, my >> application crashes with an error memory message. > > What error message do you get if setting shared_buffers higher than 1GB? > Exactly what error message do you get when the application crashes? > >> work_mem =512MB # min 64kB > > That's way too high for most applications. In a complex query, each sort > or hash node can will use up work_mem amount of memory. That means that > if you have a very complex query with several such nodes, it will run > out of memory. Try something like 16MB. > > > -- > Heikki Linnakangas > EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend