"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Tom Lane wrote: >> An out-of-memory error should result in a long report in the postmaster >> log about how many bytes in each memory context --- can you post that?
> This is all I'm seeing in the logs: > # grep "\[653\]" pgsql > Aug 11 08:45:47 pgsql80 pg[653]: [34-1] ERROR: out of memory > Aug 11 08:45:47 pgsql80 pg[653]: [34-2] DETAIL: Failed on request of size 32. (looks at code...) Hmm, it seems to print the report on stderr. I imagine we did that because there's possibly not enough memory to use elog. Anyway, can you arrange to capture the postmaster's stderr and try it again? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq