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Out of sort memory, consider increasing server sort buffer size - after upgrade to 10.5.5

 

Unfortunately, I can't easily give you a repro case, or show you the
queries.  I upgraded a replica/DW server from 10.4.latest to 10.5.5. I did
this on Friday night.  We're not a high volume site (by design) so nothing
would really pop up over the weekend.  We use google data studio to present
reports of aggregated data after the daily events have run.  Any given
report page will generate from 5-25 connections from datastudio, lots of
joins, group bys etc.    All of the daily events and reporting and ad-hoc
querying by our data analyst was working fine on 10.4, but on 10.5.5,
started generating "Out of sort memory, consider increasing server sort
buffer size" errors.

That's the background, there were no query changes, no significant increase
in data.  I changed sort_buffer_size and made a couple other optimizations
that fit our environment and table types. And i'll have more information in
the next few days.

All that, leads me to a simple question, that I have not been able to find
an answer to or missed something in the changelogs that would indicate this
behaviour would have changed.  Has anyone seen anything similar.  Or does
this ring a bell to a change I need to tune other than increasing
sort_buffer_size.  The only thing that changed was an upgrade.

Thanks for reading and giving it a thought.

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