Tom, David, thanks for the hints. Following you, I have upgraded to 7.3.4 (the last version for which an RPM by Red Hat is provided) and the problem seems gone now.
Regards, Jochen On Fr, 2004-06-18 at 17:22, Tom Lane wrote: > "David F. Skoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi, Jochen. > >> However, we frequently observe the following message in the log files: > >> PGRES\_FATAL_ERROR : ERROR: out of free buffers: time to abort! > >> Any hints what's going on? Suggestion? > > IIRC, there was a problem in 7.3 - 7.3.2 that tended to provoke this > failure. It's repaired in 7.3.3 and later. If you want to stay in > the 7.3 series rather than upgrade to 7.4, I would *strongly* recommend > moving to 7.3.6. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: 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