Re: Cannot allocate memory for output buffer

Peter Erickson <redlamb@redlamb.net> writes:
> Thanks. Out of curiosity, if memory exhaustion was the problem, any idea
> why the task manager would show that I'm only using 1.2GB of the 3GB of
> memory?

Well, it would've failed to allocate the next copy of the string that it
needed ... and I think also we try to keep the output buffer size at a
power of 2, so it might have been asking for 2GB for the output buffer.

            regards, tom lane