"Gerard TOURRES" <gerard.tourres@free.fr> writes:
> On my linux box (Suse 6.2 + Postgres 6.5.4/128 Mo RAM) I have a database
> with 200 000 records on 7 tables.
> It worked fine, but I have got for 2 days this error message :
> ERROR: hash table out of memory. Use -B parameter to increase buffers.
[looks at old versions] That's not Postgres 6.5. It's 6.4 or even older.
> I am going to upgrade to postgres 7.1 next week, but I would like to fix the
> problem before, because this database is on a remote server too, and his
> owner prefers to keep old version.
Tell him he is *way* overdue for an update. Anyone who's still running
6.4 is just asking for trouble.
regards, tom lane