"Anita Lederer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i have a statement which ends with > ERROR: out of memory > DETAIL: Failed on request of size 639.
Do you have work_mem set to a large value? Your query plan contains several sorts so would potentially try to use several times work_mem ... if that's more than the kernel will allow one process to have, you would get a failure like this. The other theory that comes to mind is that you've discovered an intraquery memory-leak bug, but there's not nearly enough information here to find it if so. The out-of-memory error should result in dumping a list of memory context statistics into the postmaster's log file --- if you can post that information it would be helpful. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq