Re: Unable to pg_dump 8.1.2 - memory alloc error

Hmmm that looks like to me a HW problem causing data corruption. Try doing a
REINDEX for the database, if possible restart the database server machine
and then try taking the dump again to see if that works.

But I will recommend doing memory tests for the hardware...

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Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)

On 1/31/07, airbulb <airbulb(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I get the following error when dumping a pg database with WIN_1252
> encoding:
>
> pg_dump --clean --no-owner dumpfile | gzip
> >/home/postgres/globalen.dump.gz 2>>./err.out
>
> pg_dump: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size 4294967293
> pg_dump: SQL command to dump the contents of table "site" failed:
> PQendcopy() failed.
> pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request
> size 4294967293
> pg_dump: The command was: COPY public.site (site_id, url, status, created,
> "domain", title) TO stdout;
>
> Possibly related is a particular query with pgAdmin on same site table
> with above error yields
> ERROR: invalid multibyte character for locale
>
> I have upgraded from 8.1.2 to 8.1.6 but get the same error.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> David.
>