"C. Bensend" <benny(at)bennyvision(dot)com> writes:
> I understand what happened, but not exactly why - this machine is
> running with over 300M of RAM unused. Bumping this value down to 16M
> works fine. But why does it hit a memory exhausted error at 64M?
Maybe it's exceeding a ulimit setting?
You might want to watch it with "top" and see what size the process
actually gets to before failing. I'm not sure how accurate the
vacuum_mem throttle is ...
regards, tom lane