Fwd: Out of Memory on Reindex - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Chris Hoover
Subject Fwd: Out of Memory on Reindex
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Msg-id 1d219a6f0705301024p61aec66cv8b87adebfd4244a9@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Out of Memory on Reindex  ("Chris Hoover" <revoohc@gmail.com>)
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Re: Fwd: Out of Memory on Reindex  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Any ideas?

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From: Chris Hoover <revoohc@gmail.com>
Date: May 29, 2007 11:36 AM
Subject: Out of Memory on Reindex
To: "pgsql-admin@postgresql.org" <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>

I am getting the following error when trying to run a reindex on one of my databases.

reindexdb: reindexing of database "xxx" failed: ERROR:  out of memory
DETAIL:  Failed on request of size 268435456.

Can someone advise on what memory parameter was violated?  Are we looking at work_mem, shmmax, or something else?

Thanks,

Chris

PG 8.1.3

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