Darren Reed <darrenr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > # /usr/pkg/bin/psql -U postgres template1 > psql: FATAL: out of memory > DETAIL: Failed on request of size 20. I'm starting to think there is something very broken about your machine :-(. Have you run any hardware diagnostics on it lately? The level of flakiness you're seeing starts to suggest bad RAM to me. Anyway, the above error should have also produced a map of per-context memory usage in the postmaster log (ie, postmaster stderr). If you could show us that, it might be revealing. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings