"Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@xxxxxxxx> writes: > no tables in it. I logged into my server and reran the vacuumdb -a -z > command and it went though with no problem. I also checked my log file > and it shows that there have been 25 out of memory errors on my server > today. > My question is: Is this normal? Should this make me nervous that I > have a problem? Yeah ... > PostgreSQL 8.1.0 on i686-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) > 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7) ... and this should definitely make you nervous. We don't release update versions for idle amusement. Get onto 8.1.3 and see if it keeps happening. regards, tom lane