| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "mcelroy, tim" <tim(dot)mcelroy(at)bostonstock(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Memory and/or cache issues? |
| Date: | 2006-05-05 13:31:18 |
| Message-ID: | 20060505133118.GF8878@surnet.cl |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "mcelroy, tim" <tim(dot)mcelroy(at)bostonstock(dot)com> writes:
> > pg_dump: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size 18446744073709551613
>
> That looks more like a corrupt-data problem than anything directly to do
> with having or not having enough memory.
The bit pattern is certainly suspicious, though I'll grant that it
doesn't mean anything.
$ dc
2 o
18446744073709551613 p
1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111101
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