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From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
To: Marcin Citowicki <marcin.citowicki@m4n.nl>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: pg_dump error - out of memory, Failed on request of size 536870912
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:33:18 +0200
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Marcin Citowicki wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I forgot to add - all those 'out of memory' errors happen when backup db 
> is trying to create index. Every 'CREATE INDEX' operation is followed by 
> 'out of memory' error.

are you sure that your OS (or ulimit) is able to support a 
maintenance_work_setting that large ? - try reducing to a say 128MB for 
a start and try again.


Stefan



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