I am having a problem running "pg_dump -s database "on one system while it runs fine on another system. Both databases are nearly identical (minor changes to schemas and tables) On the older system it is a redhat x.x (32 bit) 12GiB memory running postgresql 8.4.3 (32 bit) On the newer system it is aUbuntu 10.04 (64 bit) 8GiB memory running postgresql 8.4.8 64 bit Postgresql.conf are identical . On the redhat the kernel paramters are : cat /proc/sys/kernel/sh* /proc/sys/kernel/shmall /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni 4294967296 68719476736 4096 On Ubuntu I have cranked up the shmmax parameter several time to be now twice what is configured on the redhat system and reduced max_connections to less than half of the redhat system Both systems have the same parameter settings for (except max_connections which is much higher on the redhat system, I have been downgrading this parameter on Ubuntu) : max_connections | 14 | | 1 | 536870911 | 100 << Ubuntu max_connections | 100 | | 1 | 536870911 | 100 << Redhat max_files_per_process | 1000 | | 25 | 2147483647 | 1000 max_function_args | 100 | | 100 | 100 | 100 max_identifier_length | 63 | | 63 | 63 | 63 max_index_keys | 32 | | 32 | 32 | 32 max_locks_per_transaction | 64 | | 10 | 2147483647 | 64 max_prepared_transactions | 0 | | 0 | 536870911 | 0 max_stack_depth | 2048 | kB | 100 | 2147483647 | 100 On the Ubuntu the last test that I did I set the sharred_buffer to: name | setting | unit | min_val | max_val | boot_val --------------------------+---------+------+---------+------------+---------- shared_buffers | 32768 | 8kB | 16 | 1073741823 | 1024 shared_preload_libraries | | | when I run the following dump on the Ubuntu system I get : pg_dump -s DB >/tmp/DB_schema_only.dmp pg_dump: WARNING: out of shared memory pg_dump: SQL command failed pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: out of shared memory HINT: You might need to increase max_locks_per_transaction. pg_dump: The command was: LOCK TABLE schema_x.x_table IN ACCESS SHARE MODE This is a very large table with a lot of inheritances. I don't understand what I am doing wrong since I have given a larger amount of resources on the Ubuntu system and continue to fail. Am I missing anything else? -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin