Bug #42174 Select count(*) with subquery consuming multi-gigs of memory, 5.0.67 & 4.1.22
Submitted: 16 Jan 2009 22:46 Modified: 19 Jan 2009 7:06
Reporter: Daniel Smythe Email Updates:
Status: Duplicate Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: General Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:5.0.67 & 4.1.22 OS:Linux
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: count, Memory, memory leak, subqueries

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