Hi, running a geo-database from a dump restore where still one of the most important indexes is missing and so the search is slow. Whenever I try to add the follwing index to the table "placex", one of the postmaster processes dies and the server restarts. I try: CREATE INDEX idx_placex_sector ON placex USING btree (geometry_sector(geometry), rank_address, osm_type, osm_id); The table counts around 50.000.000 rows. The first 20.000.000 are indexed in 20-30 minutes. Nice! Then indexing becomes slow and slower, first taking 100.000 rows in ten minutes while further consequently decreasing speed. When the job reaches something around row 25.000.000 postgres goes down: WARNING: terminating connection because of crash of another server process DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server process to roll back the current transaction and exit, because another server process exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory. I have checked RAM and changed the HD with no success. Experimenting with a lot of different memory settings in the conf-file didn't help either. Is there anybody else who experienced this and found a way to create this index? Server is postgres 8.3.9 with 4 GB dedicated RAM. gemoetry_sector function looks like this (postgis): DECLARE NEWgeometry geometry; BEGIN -- RAISE WARNING '%',place; NEWgeometry := place; IF ST_IsEmpty(NEWgeometry) OR NOT ST_IsValid(NEWgeometry) OR ST_X(ST_Centroid(NEWgeometry))::text in ('NaN','Infinity','-Infinity') OR ST_Y(ST_Centroid(NEWgeometry))::text in ('NaN','Infinity','-Infinity') THEN NEWgeometry := ST_buffer(NEWgeometry,0); IF ST_IsEmpty(NEWgeometry) OR NOT ST_IsValid(NEWgeometry) OR ST_X(ST_Centroid(NEWgeometry))::text in ('NaN','Infinity','-Infinity') OR ST_Y(ST_Centroid(NEWgeometry))::text in ('NaN','Infinity','-Infinity') THEN RETURN NULL; END IF; END IF; RETURN (500-ST_X(ST_Centroid(NEWgeometry))::integer)*1000 + (500-ST_Y(ST_Centroid(NEWgeometry))::integer); END; The subcalled St_Centroid is a postgis C-function located in /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/lib/liblwgeom. Anybody out there has an idea what happens or better how to reach the 50.000.000? Thanks Frans -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general