Sam Mason <sam@samason.me.uk> writes:
> It's a normal 32bit Intel Debian system, nothing much special done
> to increase the kernel/user split or anything like that as far as I
> remember on this box. If I try with larger sizes it falls over with
> "out of memory", but up until around 755MB (760MB fails) it gives back
> "INSERT 0 1" which I've always read as inserting a row. A select on the
> table gives this inserted row containing a zero length string.
Well, I can't reproduce that here. Something strange about your
configuration maybe?
regards, tom lane