From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Kirk Wythers <kwythers@umn.edu>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: trouble with a join on OS X
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:45:20 +0000
Message-ID: <45C34E80.7010805@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8FD54F8B-792B-4333-8C73-AAFD2992C17F@umn.edu>
References: <8FD54F8B-792B-4333-8C73-AAFD2992C17F@umn.edu>
Kirk Wythers wrote:
> I am trying to do fairly simple joins on climate databases that should
> return ~ 7 million rows of data. However, I'm getting an error message
> on a OS X (10.4 tiger server) machine that seems to imply that I am
> running out of memory. The errors are:
>
> psql(15811) malloc: *** vm_allocate(size=8421376) failed (error code=3)
Is this actually in psql - the client code rather than the backend?
Could it be that its allocating memory for its 7million result rows and
running out of space for your user account?
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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