Re: MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: akenez(at)energo-szoft(dot)hu
Cc: "Psql_General (E-mail)" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size
Date: 2003-06-30 14:22:46
Message-ID: 4499.1056982966@sss.pgh.pa.us
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ken=E9z_Attila?= <akenez(at)energo-szoft(dot)hu> writes:
> I have this error message during (I think) a simple select. (I think only
> because the user is far from me and I cannot reproduce the error.)

It might be caused by corrupted data on disk (specifically, a bad length
word in a variable-length field). Hard to tell with so little info.

regards, tom lane

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