[GENERAL] PostgreSQL's vacuumdb fails to allocate memory for
non-root users
Douglas McNaught
doug at mcnaught.org
Wed Jun 29 14:36:58 GMT 2005
Sven Willenberger <sven at 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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