> On Nov 29, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Richard Huxton wrote: >> Alex Hochberger wrote: >>> Problem Usage: we have a 20GB table with 120m rows that we are >>> splitting into some sub-tables. Generally, we do large data pulls from >>> here, 1 million - 4 million records at a time, stored in a new table for >>> export. These queries are problematic because we are unable to index the >>> database for the queries that we run because we get out of memory errors. >> >> Would it not make sense to find out why you are getting these errors >> first? Alex Hochberger wrote: > It's not on rebuilding the index, it's on CREATE INDEX. > > I attribute it to wrong setting, Ubuntu bizarre-ness, and general problems. Please do not top-post. I reformatted your message for clarity. Richard is still correct: it is not normal to get out-of-memory errors during index building, regardless of age of servers and Linux distro. Perhaps you just have a maintenance_work_mem setting that's too large for your server. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.advogato.org/person/alvherre "Uno puede defenderse de los ataques; contra los elogios se esta indefenso" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
