"Francisco Reyes" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 1:00 pm 07/18/08 Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> If you can get Postgres to report an actual out-of-memory error (as >> opposed to crashing from OOM kill) >> then it should dump a memory usage >> map into the postmaster log. Looking at that would be informative. > Got it. > AfterTriggerEvents: 10553909248 total in 1268 blocks; 20432 free (6 > chunks); 10553888816 used Well, that's definitely your problem ... > HashBatchContext: 532676656 total in 74 blocks; 1863936 free (5 > chunks); 530812720 used > HashBatchContext: 415227952 total in 59 blocks; 6589744 free (5 > chunks); 408638208 used although these numbers seem way outta line too. What did you say you had work_mem set to? regards, tom lane