[postgis-users] memory usage of st_clip/st_intersection in a session

Rémi Cura remi.cura at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 01:05:15 PDT 2015


Hey, could it be that  in the first case you perform everything into one
transaction? Chers, remic
Le 2 juin 2015 20:52, "Bborie Park" <dustymugs at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Based upon your description, I can't guess as to the cause of the memory
> leak(?). Can you post the query and provide some information (spatial
> extent, # of features) about the rasters (tile size, # of bands, in-db or
> out-db) and the geometries (same SRID of raster, maximum # of vertices per
> polygon)?
>
> -bborie
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Bergenroth, Brandon <bbergenroth at rti.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I have thousands of polygons that I clip/intersect with various rasters
>> and calculate area-weighted values, etc.
>>
>> I have created a function which returns a table of attributes and it
>> works like a charm when calling it for a specific polygon and raster.
>> However when I call this function over and over again in a single session,
>> the memory used by the PostgreSQL process continues to climb and instead of
>> the function returning in the few seconds it normally does, it starts to
>> take longer and longer and will just churn on one polygon for a long time
>> to the point of never returning.  Now if I open another session and run
>> that particular polygon it comes right back so I know it is not the data or
>> the function.
>>
>> If I batch up the polygons and execute them in a new connection each time
>> then they all finish in a timely manner.
>>
>> It would be hard for me to produce a test case given the amount of data
>> I'm working with, but is there anything I am obviously missing here?  It is
>> not such a burden to do each one in a new connection but that is obviously
>> not ideal.
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>> Brandon Bergenroth
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