Re: Out Of Memory Error on GiST Index

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, James Cradock wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I'm getting an Out Of Memory error when I try to create a GiST index on a
> geometry column (PostGIS) with approximately 33,000,000 rows. I can truncate
> the data in the table, create the GiST index on the empty table, but when I
> try to reload the data via pg_restore I get the error. I get the error also
> if I try creating the GiST index on the table with the 33,000,000 rows.
>
> Are there limitations with the GiST index? Has anyone seen this?

AFAIK, no. Perhaps, it's PostGIS problem ? It'd be nice to build
rtree index using contrib/rtree_gist to see if problem in GiST.

>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
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