Chander Ganesan <chander.ganesan@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I get this whenever I try to do a pg_dump. Curiously, if I *decrease* > shared buffers waaaay down, I find that these errors go away. 32-bit machine no doubt? There's a limit to how big a datum can be slung around in a 32-bit address space, and it's not very many tens of megabytes if you've got shared_buffers eating a large chunk of that address space. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin