The machine has 128Meg of RAM, 256Meg of SWAP, and SWAP isn't even being
touched...
acctng=> insert into radhist select * from radhist_old;
FATAL 1: palloc failure: memory exhausted
acctng=> \q
> pstat -s
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
/dev/sd0s1b 256000 0 255872 0% Interleaved
> psql
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type \q to quit
type \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
You are currently connected to the database: acctng
acctng=> select count(start_time) from radhist_old;
count
------
295850
(1 row)
acctng=>