[postgis-users] Controlling PostGIS memory usage

[Sandro Santilli]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:25:05AM -0500, Dan Gast wrote:

> overcommit = 2 is definitely the best choice in this situation (i.e.
> give the daemon a chance to give up gracefully), but I still don't
> understand why memory balloons in the first place.

ST_Buffer is known to possibly use a lot of memory, especially
with round endpoints. See if/how things change with "endcap=flat".

--strk;