Re: 8.3.0: vacuum full analyze: "invalid memory alloc request size"

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Tomas Szepe <szepe(at)pinerecords(dot)com> writes:
>> Are you doing anything that would involve lots of updates in these
>> catalogs --- maybe repeatedly renaming a column, or something like that?

> Hmm, I typically use a pair of
> "ALTER TABLE table DISABLE TRIGGER USER;"/
> "ALTER TABLE table ENABLE TRIGGER USER;"
> per almost every relation when loading a dump, other than that there's
> only the initial db creation code (lots of plpgsql triggers and a couple
> immutable functions) and then using temp tables for complicated queries.

Hm, those ALTERs wouldn't affect pg_attribute.  Maybe just using a lot
of temp tables is enough?

Are you running with autovacuum on, or not?

			regards, tom lane