Lester Caine wrote:

> It does sound like a 'file too big' sort of problem. Smaller index and
> few records work. How much space is left in both the partition where the
> database is located, and the location of the temporary file - which may
> be getting limited.

Lester thanks for your time.

I've got 15GB of free space.

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 33076644 15998452 15397984 51% /
/dev/sda1 100691 12993 82499 14% /boot
none 645896 0 645896 0% /dev/shm

regards,
Lorenzo Fiorini