Michael Akinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As suggested, I tested a VACUUM FULL ANALYZE with 128MB shared_buffers > and 512 MB reserved for maintenance_work_mem (on a 32 bit machine with 4 > GB RAM). That ought to leave more than enough space for other processes > in the system. Again, the system fails on the VACUUM with the following > error (identical to the error we had when maintenance_work_mem was very > low.
> INFO: vacuuming "pg_catalog.pg_largeobject" > ERROR: out of memory > DETAIL: Failed on request of size 536870912 Are you sure this is a VACUUM FULL, and not a plain VACUUM? I suspect that it's the latter, and the reason it's failing is that you are running the postmaster under a ulimit that is less than 512MB (or at least not enough more to allow an allocation of that size). regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly