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

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Fwd: Out of Memory on Reindex
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Msg-id 465DB9C6.80301@commandprompt.com
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In response to Fwd: Out of Memory on Reindex  ("Chris Hoover" <revoohc@gmail.com>)
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Chris Hoover wrote:
> Any ideas?

Drop it and try to recreate it. As far as the parameter it is
maintenance_work_mem but that should spill to disk which means you ran
out of actual memory too.

Joshua D. Drake

P.S. You *need* to upgrade to 8.1.9

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