On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 14:12 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Rajarshi Guha <rguha@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 10:50 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > >> I think you are getting burnt by the list of pending trigger actions > >> to check the foreign-key references in B. > > > Thanks for the pointer. I've dropped the constraint and am now running > > the INSERT. > > However when I look at the output of top, I'm seeing that the %MEM value > > is continuously increasing and I'm worried that I'm going to hit the > > same problem in a few hours. > > Sure you got all the FK constraints involving table B? Do you have any > AFTER triggers other than the FK constraints? Yes, \d B shows no constraints > > One thing I did not mention previously is that table A has some > > constraints on some fields (notably field b is specified to be NOT > > NULL). > > Plain old CHECK constraints shouldn't matter. Tell us more about those > functions in the SELECT though --- what are they? That would be a problem as I have not written them. I know the INSERT (and PL/pgSQL function) and functions f1() and f2() work on some trivial test tables - I should probably contact the developer. Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajarshi Guha <rguha@xxxxxxxxxxx> GPG Fingerprint: 0CCA 8EE2 2EEB 25E2 AB04 06F7 1BB9 E634 9B87 56EE ------------------------------------------------------------------- A bug in the hand is better than one as yet undetected.
