Re: More AIX 5.3 fun - out of memory ?

Gavin Hamill <gdh@laterooms.com> writes:
> Having successfully got pg 8.1.3 to run, I'm simply trying to pg_restore
> a dump from our live server. However, even very soon into the restore, I
> get these messages from the autovacuum daemon once per minute:
> 2006-03-28 14:15:35 BSTERROR:  out of memory
> 2006-03-28 14:15:35 BSTDETAIL:  Failed on request of size 268435452.

What have you got maintenance_work_mem set to?  If it's more than 1Gb,
back it off --- 8.1.3's VACUUM command doesn't handle that nicely.
(It's unlikely you really want it that high anyway.)

You might wanna put a space at the end of your log_line_prefix, too...

            regards, tom lane