Hi Torsten, Thanks for your answer. I have modified (SELECT * FROM upsert) to (SELECT * FROM upsert WHERE slot=to_timestamp('201212032145', 'YYYYMMDDHH24MI') and MSG=2) according to your suggestion to reduce the result-set to a single row. However, the INSERT process is still consuming the same amount of RAM. Regards, Alessandro. On Wednesday 17 December 2014 16:26:32 Torsten Zuehlsdorff wrote: > Hello Alessandro, > > > 2014-12-15 17:54:07 GMT DETAIL: Failed process was running: WITH upsert > > AS (update MSG set > > (slot,MSG,HRV,VIS006,VIS008,IR_016,IR_039,WV_062,WV_073,IR_087,IR_097,IR_1 > > 08,IR_120,IR_134,PRO,EPI,CLM,TAPE) = (to_timestamp('201212032145', > > 'YYYYMMDDHH24MI'),2,'\xffffff','\xff','\xff','\xff','\xff','\xff','\xff',' > > \xff','\xff','\xff','\xff','\xff','\x01','\x01','\x7f','LTO5_020') where > > slot=to_timestamp('201212032145', 'YYYYMMDDHH24MI') and MSG=2 RETURNING > > *) insert into MSG > > (slot,MSG,HRV,VIS006,VIS008,IR_016,IR_039,WV_062,WV_073,IR_087,IR_097,IR_1 > > 08,IR_120,IR_134,PRO,EPI,CLM,TAPE) select to_timestamp('201212032145', > > 'YYYYMMDDHH24MI'),2,'\xffffff','\xff','\xff','\xff','\xff','\xff','\xff',' > > \xff','\xff','\xff','\xff','\xff','\x01','\x01','\x7f','LTO5_020' WHERE > > NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM upsert); > > How many rows is "(SELECT * FROM upsert)" returning? Without knowing > more i would guess, that the result-set is very big and that could be > the reason for the memory usage. > > I would add an WHERE clause to reduce the result-set (an correct index > can fasten this method even more). > > Greetings, > Torsten -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance