The following bug has been logged on the website: Bug reference: 6378 Logged by: Julian v. Bock Email address: b...@openit.de PostgreSQL version: 9.1.2 Operating system: Linux x86_64 Description:
When creating an index on an inet column the postmaster process tries to allocate much more memory than it should in version 9.1.2. In my test db (maintenance_work_mem = 1gb; shared_buffers = 256mb) the CREATE INDEX in the script below runs out of memory after allocating several GB. Note that this does not happen with version 9.1.1 (only a few hundred MB are allocated). ----------- create table iptest ( id serial primary key, ip inet ); insert into iptest ( ip ) ( select ( '192.' || a || '.' || b || '.' || c )::inet from generate_series( 0, 127 ) a, generate_series( 0, 255 ) b, generate_series( 0, 255 ) c ); create index iptest_idx_1 on iptest ( ip ); ----------- Regards, Julian v. Bock -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs