Re: vacuumdb out of memory error - Mailing list pgsql-general

"Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net> writes:
> no tables in it.  I logged into my server and reran the vacuumdb -a -z
> command and it went though with no problem.  I also checked my log file
> and it shows that there have been 25 out of memory errors on my server
> today.

> My question is:  Is this normal?  Should this make me nervous that I
> have a problem?

Yeah ...

>  PostgreSQL 8.1.0 on i686-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC)
> 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)

... and this should definitely make you nervous.  We don't release
update versions for idle amusement.  Get onto 8.1.3 and see if it keeps
happening.

            regards, tom lane