Tom, David,
thanks for the hints. Following you, I have upgraded to 7.3.4 (the last
version for which an RPM by Red Hat is provided) and the problem seems
gone now.
Regards,
Jochen
On Fr, 2004-06-18 at 17:22, Tom Lane wrote:
> "David F. Skoll" <dfs@roaringpenguin.com> writes:
> > Hi, Jochen.
> >> However, we frequently observe the following message in the log files:
> >> PGRES\_FATAL_ERROR : ERROR: out of free buffers: time to abort!
> >> Any hints what's going on? Suggestion?
>
> IIRC, there was a problem in 7.3 - 7.3.2 that tended to provoke this
> failure. It's repaired in 7.3.3 and later. If you want to stay in
> the 7.3 series rather than upgrade to 7.4, I would *strongly* recommend
> moving to 7.3.6.