Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:54:33 +0200
From:      Juergen Dankoweit <Juergen.Dankoweit@T-Online.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PostgreSQL's vacuumdb fails to allocate memory for non-root users
Message-ID:  <1120074873.1720.3.camel@primergy470.juergendankoweit.net>
In-Reply-To: <58067976-00C6-4380-90DF-F448D9008C81@khera.org>
References:  <1120050088.19603.7.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> <58067976-00C6-4380-90DF-F448D9008C81@khera.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

--=-kf7HwcHL6wZVq/mR9Cha
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hello,

Am Mittwoch, den 29.06.2005, 14:59 -0400 schrieb Vivek Khera:
> On Jun 29, 2005, at 9:01 AM, Sven Willenberger wrote:
>=20
> > Unix user root (and any psql superuser) the vacuum runs fine. It is =20
> > when
> > the unix user is non-root (e.g. su -l pgsql -c "vacuumdb -a -z") that
> > this memory error occurs. All users use the "default" class for
> > login.conf purposes which has not been modified from its installed
> > settings. Any ideas on how to a) troubleshoot this or b) fix this =20
> > (if it
> > is something obvious that I just cannot see).
>=20
> This doesn't make sense: the actual command is executed by the =20
> backend postgres server, so the uid of the client program doens't =20
> make a bit of difference.
>=20
> You need to see exactly who is generating that error.  It certainly =20
> is not the Pg backend.

Sorry for that possible stupid question. But why do you think that the
PG backend does not generate the error?
I use PostgreSQL since many years under FreeBSD and it is the first time
to hear from such an error.

Best regards

J=C3=BCrgen

--=-kf7HwcHL6wZVq/mR9Cha
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc
Content-Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQBCwvx5oKqsUmo8Y68RAlDuAKDr0pps13VCUcKTyLWNnvmalHV/+wCg01Tp
vwCl5xemaI27qPU1Bs6azkM=
=WbWf
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--=-kf7HwcHL6wZVq/mR9Cha--




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1120074873.1720.3.camel>