On 2022-Sep-28, Zwettler Markus (OIZ) wrote: > I found this blog post talking about a memory leak having hash joins due to a larger work_mem. > https://gist.github.com/luhn/2b35a9b31255e3a6a2e6a06d1213dfc9 Oh dear, is that what passes for a blog post these days? > Does anyone know if this problem is still there in PG 12.11 ? It wasn't there in 9.5, so it seems safe to believe it isn't in 12.11. > We are running on PG 12.11. > We recognized an evergrowing memory usage. > > work_mem = 50M > there are some regularly hash joins. I think it's more likely that this is a new, different bug (assuming it is a bug at all). But you'd have to provide more details in order to track it down. -- Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ "El Maquinismo fue proscrito so pena de cosquilleo hasta la muerte" (Ijon Tichy en Viajes, Stanislaw Lem)