I'm starting to wonder if my database has finally grown too big for my computer. But, rather than peform badly, I see a number of "bad things" happen: * pg_dump fails to run, causing an "out of memory" error (I don't understand why this happens, but it does); * restarting postgres across a reboot results in tables disappearing without any error messages being given out (this is *really disturbing*.) postgres itself, however, starts up fine. "wc -l" of the output from the last successuful dump_all is around 8million lines, spread across half a dozen or so tables. I'm afraid that if I restructure the db to have smaller tables, I'd just be putting off "hitting" the ceiling. What can I safely do to get postgres running normally? I'm currently using 8.1.3, will I fare any better with a more recent version? My end goal is to have maybe 50 million records. Will postgresql handle this (with only 1.5GB of RAM) or do I need to look elsewhere for a db of this size? Thoughts? Cheers, Darren ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
