Re: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size

From: Johann Spies <jspies(at)sun(dot)ac(dot)za>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size
Date: 2007-05-29 09:39:10
Message-ID: 20070529093910.GA24350@sun.ac.za
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On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:18:37AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Johann Spies wrote:
> >> #3 0x00000000005ff1c8 in perform_default_encoding_conversion (
> >> src=0x2b881e87f040 "\"2007-04-20\" \"18:07:06\" \"192.168.0.100\" \"73\" \"http://www.kerkbode.co.za/kerkbode/images/blank.gif\\\"\"\n\"2007-04-20\" \"18:07:06\" \"192.168.0.100\" \"69\" \"http://develop.christians.co.za/phpAdsNew/adx.js\"\n\"20"..., len=337739539, is_client_to_server=5 '\005') at mbutils.c:461
>
>
> > Interesting. You are passing a single 300 MB string here, not
> > 90-something char lines. The problem is probably in newlines. Why are
> > they not getting used as line separators escapes me.
>
> Stripped of gdb's own backslashing, the data seems to be
>
> ...images/blank.gif\""
^^

And that is where the problem is.

> "2007...
>
> which leads me to think that the dump was generated on the assumption
> that backslash is the escape character, but is being reloaded under a
> different assumption.

Backslash is indeed used as escape character. I see now that I should
have specified it in my copy command!

I have figured out how to do it now and successfully imported that part
of the logs into a table.

Thanks for your help.

Regards
Johann
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