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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: ERROR: MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size
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Msg-id 11203.1007552156@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to ERROR: MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size  ("Rich Ryan" <rich@usedcars.com>)
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"Rich Ryan" <rich@usedcars.com> writes:
> I'm getting errors like the following when I do queries/copies/dumps on
> certain tables.
> ERROR:  MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size 4294967293

A first guess is corrupted data: the length word of some variable-length
field contains garbage.  You could probably track down the affected
row(s) by seeing how much you can retrieve without error.  See past
discussions of similar problems.

            regards, tom lane

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