Re: Out of memory error on automatic vacuum

El 18/11/19 a las 15:16, Tomas Vondra escribió:
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> Not sure I understand. Whenever PostgreSQL process needs memory it
> requests it from the kernel by calling malloc(), and the amount of
> availabe RAM is limited.  So when kernel can't provide more memory,
> it returns NULL.
>
Understood.

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> If it finished a couple of minutes before, it's unlikely to be the
> related. But hard to say, without knowing the details.

Yeah, I thought the same but for me is too much coincidence and is
suspicious (or at least a thing to have in mind).

> No, that's just one of the memory contexts (they form a tree), using
> only 1kB of memory. What matters is the "grand total"
>
> Grand total: 1009356 bytes in 130 blocks; 436888 free (72 chunks);
> 572468 used
>
> which is ~1MB.
>
OK, in my lack of knowledge I was understanding "memory context" as the
whole message.

> Another thing you might do is adding a swap (if you don't have one
> already), as a safety.
>
>
Excuse my ignorance but... swap? You mean some mechanism that prevents
server to be unavailable by having a second instance running but not
accesible and changing from one to the other when the main fails? (It's
the best way I find to describe it, as I don't usually speak/write english).

Thanks for your time.