Group: pgsql.performance


Subject: OOM Errors as a result of table inheritance and a bad plan(?)
From: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane)
Date: 9/28/2007 4:56:49 PM
Arctic Toucan <arctic_toucan@hotmail.com> writes: > -- Is there something magical about the hash aggregate estimate of 200 rows? Yeah, it's the default :-( > Is this a bug, or some subtlety of the Postgres query planner? It's an, um, known deficiency --- the planner hasn't got any idea how to construct aggregated statistics for an inheritance tree. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster