Re: VACUUM FULL out of memory

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:27:16PM +0100, Michael Akinde wrote:
> >  
> Those are the ulimits of the db_admin account (i.e., the user that set 
> up and runs the DB processes). Is Postgres limited by other settings?

Are you sure?

On one system I used many years ago, /bin/sh wasn't what I thought it was,
and so the ulimit that I got when logged in was not what the postmaster was
starting under.  Took me many days to figure out what was up.

A