Re: Vacuum - Out of memory

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Tomeh, Husam" <htomeh(at)firstam(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Vacuum - Out of memory
Date: 2006-01-31 14:36:12
Message-ID: 3549.1138718172@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Tomeh, Husam" <htomeh(at)firstam(dot)com> writes:
> ThanksTom. I've asked the SA to bounce the server thinking it may be a
> memory fragmentation issue on the server. After bouncing the server, I
> was able to run vacuum successfully. (Before bouncing the server, I
> tried a lower value of maintenance_work_mem of 512MB and vacuum worked
> fine which made me feel better the status of data not being corrupted).
> Do you agree with me at this point that it's not a data corruption
> issue? Thanks again.

No, I don't, unless you have fields in the database that *should* be
1-billion-and-change bytes long.

regards, tom lane

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