Re: Memory and/or cache issues? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Memory and/or cache issues?
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Msg-id 20060505133118.GF8878@surnet.cl
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In response to Re: Memory and/or cache issues?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "mcelroy, tim" <tim.mcelroy@bostonstock.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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