Re: Out of Memory errors are frustrating as heck!

Tomas Vondra <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.performance
Message-ID <20190420211320.rzoomlk6gg2po4nw@development>
On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 10:36:50PM +0200, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 04:26:34PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>Tomas Vondra <[email protected]> writes:
>>>Considering how rare this issue likely is, we need to be looking for a
>>>solution that does not break the common case.
>>
>>Agreed.  What I think we need to focus on next is why the code keeps
>>increasing the number of batches.  It seems like there must be an undue
>>amount of data all falling into the same bucket ... but if it were simply
>>a matter of a lot of duplicate hash keys, the growEnabled shutoff
>>heuristic ought to trigger.
>>
>
>I think it's really a matter of underestimate, which convinces the planner
>to hash the larger table. In this case, the table is 42GB, so it's
>possible it actually works as expected. With work_mem = 4MB I've seen 32k
>batches, and that's not that far off, I'd day. Maybe there are more common
>values, but it does not seem like a very contrived data set.
>

Actually, I might have spoken too soon. I've dne some stats on the sample
data. There are 113478127 rows in total, and while most UUIDs are unique,
there are UUIDs that represent ~10% of the data. So maybe there really is
something broken in disabling the growth.

regards

-- 
Tomas Vondra                  http://www.2ndQuadrant.com
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
stats.txt (text/plain, 7.9 KB)
test=# select c1, count(*) as c2 from (select count(*) as c1 from tmp_r group by documentinternalid) foo group by c1;
    c1    |    c2 
----------+-------
        1 | 67884
        2 | 33033
        3 |  9478
        4 | 11205
        5 |  2725
        6 |  3457
        7 |   677
        8 |  1992
        9 |   961
       10 |   857
       11 |   199
       12 |  1397
       13 |    81
       14 |   289
       15 |   630
       16 |   561
       17 |    69
       18 |   360
       19 |    42
       20 |   367
       21 |   232
       22 |   121
       23 |    49
       24 |   380
       25 |   113
       26 |    85
       27 |    93
       28 |   117
       29 |    21
       30 |   136
       31 |    32
       32 |   102
       33 |    24
       34 |    17
       35 |    24
       36 |   145
       37 |    37
       38 |    15
       39 |    17
       40 |    54
       41 |    15
       42 |    65
       43 |     8
       44 |    48
       45 |    26
       46 |    12
       47 |     5
       48 |    88
       49 |    80
       50 |    26
       51 |    10
       52 |    10
       53 |     1
       54 |    68
       55 |     6
       56 |    31
       57 |     6
       58 |     7
       59 |     3
       60 |    43
       61 |     1
       62 |     5
       63 |     7
       64 |    24
       65 |    10
       66 |    24
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