"Chris Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > maintenance_work_mem = 1048576 (I have 9GB ram on this server).
You might have that much RAM, but I wonder how much of it the kernel will give to any one process. Did you check the ulimit settings the postmaster is running under? Is it possibly a 32-bit rather than 64-bit build of Postgres? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match