[GENERAL] PostgreSQL's vacuumdb fails to allocate memory for non-root users

[Douglas McNaught]

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