Re: psql crashing - don't know why

[Shoaib Mir <shoaibmir@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Brent Wood<b.wood@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi...
>
> I have a view across 3 tables, total some 5m rows.
>
> I can extract parts of the view, entire rows, with a where clause
> (eg: select * from view where cell_id=100000;)
>
> If I try to select the entire view (eg: select * from view;) it runs for a while then gives the error msg "Killed" and returns to the system prompt, having exited psql.
>
> The log says:
> 2009-08-10 00:19:01 NZST ben200601 woodb LOG:  could not send data to client: Broken pipe
> 2009-08-10 00:19:48 NZST ben200601 woodb LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
>

Most likely you're getting bitten by the OOM killer in linux.

Go through the section "Linux Memory Overcommit at --> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/kernel-resources.html

... that might help in this case

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