>Have you run ANALYZE recently? You might be running into the well-known >problem that hashed aggregation can consume an arbitrary amount of >memory -- posting the EXPLAIN for the query would confirm that. > >-Neil > > > yes, I run VACUUM ANALYZE VERBOSE then run the query, and finally got the out of memory error. After that, we dig in the archive and find a solution: issue a 'set enable_hashagg=off' and re-run the query, and now the query give me the result. regards laser ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend