Stephane Bailliez <sbailliez@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size 1664639562 This sounds like corrupt data --- specifically, 1664639562 showing up where a variable-width field's length word ought to be. It may or may not be relevant that the ASCII equivalent of that bit pattern is Jb8c ... do you work with data that contains such substrings? > Sometimes I do get: > ERROR: unexpected end of data If it's not 100% repeatable I'd start to wonder about flaky hardware. Have you run memory and disk diagnostics on this machine recently? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend