Jeff Ross <jross@wykids.org> writes:
> Running a simple select only pgbench test against it will fail with an out of
> memory error as it tries to vacuum --analyze the newly created database with
> 7500000 tuples.
Better look at the "ulimit" values the postmaster is started with;
you shouldn't be getting that out-of-memory error AFAICS, unless
there's a very restrictive ulimit on what an individual process can
allocate.
regards, tom lane