Re: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Johann Spies
Subject Re: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size
Date
Msg-id 20070529093910.GA24350@sun.ac.za
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In response to Re: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-admin
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:18:37AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > Johann Spies wrote:
> >> #3  0x00000000005ff1c8 in perform_default_encoding_conversion (
> >> src=0x2b881e87f040 "\"2007-04-20\" \"18:07:06\" \"192.168.0.100\" \"73\"
\"http://www.kerkbode.co.za/kerkbode/images/blank.gif\\\"\"\n\"2007-04-20\"\"18:07:06\" \"192.168.0.100\" \"69\"
\"http://develop.christians.co.za/phpAdsNew/adx.js\"\n\"20"...,len=337739539, is_client_to_server=5 '\005') at
mbutils.c:461
>
>
> > Interesting.  You are passing a single 300 MB string here, not
> > 90-something char lines.  The problem is probably in newlines.  Why are
> > they not getting used as line separators escapes me.
>
> Stripped of gdb's own backslashing, the data seems to be
>
>     ...images/blank.gif\""
                           ^^

And that is where the problem is.

>     "2007...
>
> which leads me to think that the dump was generated on the assumption
> that backslash is the escape character, but is being reloaded under a
> different assumption.

Backslash is indeed used as escape character.  I see now that I should
have specified it in my copy command!

I have figured out how to do it now and successfully imported that part
of the logs into a table.

Thanks for your help.

Regards
Johann
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