Sam Nelson <samn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request > size 18446744073709551613 > pg_dump: The command was: COPY public.foo (<columns>) TO stdout; > That seems like an incredibly large memory allocation request - it shouldn't > be possible for the table to really be that large, should it? Any idea what > may be wrong if it's actually trying to allocate that much memory for a copy > command? What that looks like is data corruption; specifically, a bogus length word for a variable-length field. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general