Guy Helmer <ghelmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On systems running Postgresql 8.3.6, I have a nightly backup using > pg_dump that failed on two machines overnight with this error: > pg_dump: SQL command failed > pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size 1376006425 > pg_dump: The command was: COPY public.tablename (ts, fn, data, textdata) TO stdout; Normally I'd say "data corruption", but it is odd if you got the identical message from two different machines. Can you reproduce it with a debugger attached? If so, a backtrace from the call of errfinish might be useful. 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
