Howard Kao <fatearthling@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Basically we tried to restore a db and the following error message occurred: > pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: invalid > memory alloc request size 1836016426 I'm wondering about corruption of the dump file. I don't think either -Fc or -Ft dump format can survive being run through a Unix/Windows newline conversion, for example. But as Richard noted, more detail would help. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend