Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> not that I think it is related to the problem at all. It looks like I'm >> hitting the MaxAllocSize Limit in src/include/utils/memutils.h.
> just tried to increase this limit to 4GB (from the default 1GB) and this > seems to help a fair bit. s/help a fair bit/break a whole lot of stuff/ There are reasons for that limit, and you can't just arbitrarily rejigger it. The sorting code probably needs a defense to keep it from trying to exceed MaxAllocSize for the SortObject array; AFAIR there is no such consideration there now, but it's easily added. I'm not sure where your VACUUM failure is coming from though --- can you get a back trace from the errfinish call in that case? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq