"Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net> writes:
> no tables in it. I logged into my server and reran the vacuumdb -a -z
> command and it went though with no problem. I also checked my log file
> and it shows that there have been 25 out of memory errors on my server
> today.
> My question is: Is this normal? Should this make me nervous that I
> have a problem?
Yeah ...
> PostgreSQL 8.1.0 on i686-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC)
> 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)
... and this should definitely make you nervous. We don't release
update versions for idle amusement. Get onto 8.1.3 and see if it keeps
happening.
regards, tom lane