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Date:      Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:35:01 -0400
From:      Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
To:        Sven Willenberger <sven@dmv.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject:   Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL's vacuumdb fails to allocate memory for non-root users
Message-ID:  <m2ekal2puy.fsf@Douglas-McNaughts-Powerbook.local>
In-Reply-To: <1120055305.19603.25.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> (Sven Willenberger's message of "Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:28:24 -0400")
References:  <1120050088.19603.7.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> <m2slz12s90.fsf@Douglas-McNaughts-Powerbook.local> <1120055305.19603.25.camel@lanshark.dmv.com>

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Sven Willenberger <sven@dmv.com> writes:

>                           Again, if I log in as myself and try to run
> the command vaccumdb -a -z it fails; if I su to root and repeat it works
> fine. I am trying to narrow this down to a PostgreSQL issue vs FreeBSD
> issue.

That's really weird, because in both cases the actual VACUUM work
happens in the backend, which should be running as 'postgres'.  I
don't see how the client user could possibly make a difference. 

-Doug



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