Re: VACUUM FULL out of memory

From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: VACUUM FULL out of memory
Date: 2008-01-08 16:58:17
Message-ID: 20080108165817.GD23841@crankycanuck.ca
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On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:27:16PM +0100, Michael Akinde wrote:
> >
> Those are the ulimits of the db_admin account (i.e., the user that set
> up and runs the DB processes). Is Postgres limited by other settings?

Are you sure?

On one system I used many years ago, /bin/sh wasn't what I thought it was,
and so the ulimit that I got when logged in was not what the postmaster was
starting under. Took me many days to figure out what was up.

A

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