Re: Error: out of memory in create table as

jason nordwick <jason(at)adapt(dot)com> writes:
> ERROR: out of memory
> DETAIL: Failed on request of size 856.
> CONTEXT: SQL statement "create table gwt as select * from gworktick"
> PL/pgSQL function "processadd" line 30 at SQL statement

What PG version? What does "explain select * from gworktick" say?
Can you get explain analyze results, or does that fail with the same
error?

> work_mem = 512000 # min 64, size in KB

This could well be excessive for complicated views. You're promising
that you can provide half a gig of RAM for *each* sort or hash in the
plan.

regards, tom lane