maintenance_work_mem = 1048576 (I have 9GB ram on this server).

Chris

On 5/30/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

"Chris Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am getting the following error when trying to run a reindex on one of
my
> databases.

> reindexdb: reindexing of database "xxx" failed: ERROR:  out of memory
> DETAIL:  Failed on request of size 268435456.

> Can someone advise on what memory parameter was violated?

Kernel's process size limit (ulimit -m or something like that).

What have you got maintenance_work_mem set to ... 256MB by any chance?
If so make it less.

                        regards, tom lane

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