Re: Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc

"C. Bensend" <benny@bennyvision.com> writes:
>    I understand what happened, but not exactly why - this machine is
> running with over 300M of RAM unused.  Bumping this value down to 16M
> works fine.  But why does it hit a memory exhausted error at 64M?

Maybe it's exceeding a ulimit setting?

You might want to watch it with "top" and see what size the process
actually gets to before failing.  I'm not sure how accurate the
vacuum_mem throttle is ...

            regards, tom lane