Re: trouble with a join on OS X

Richard Huxton wrote:
> Kirk Wythers wrote:
>> I am trying to do fairly simple joins on climate databases that should
>> return ~ 7 million rows of data. However, I'm getting an error message
>> on a OS X (10.4 tiger server) machine that seems to imply that I am
>> running out of memory. The errors are:
>>
>> psql(15811) malloc: *** vm_allocate(size=8421376) failed (error code=3)
> Is this actually in psql - the client code rather than the backend?
>
> Could it be that its allocating memory for its 7million result rows and
> running out of space for your user account?
>

Hi,

If you look at the message carefully, it looks like (for me) that the
client is running out of memory. Can't allocate that 8,4MB :)

Regards,
Akos