Re: AllocSetAlloc() error message - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: AllocSetAlloc() error message
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Msg-id 23292.1044586850@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to AllocSetAlloc() error message  (Medi Montaseri <medi.montaseri@intransa.com>)
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Medi Montaseri <medi.montaseri@intransa.com> writes:
> Can someone shed some light on this error message for me (please).
> This is a 7.2.3 debug level 2 output, and my config is

> 2003-02-06 16:15:44 [645]    ERROR:  Memory exhausted in
> AllocSetAlloc(1073741820)

I think this is a corrupt-data problem: you've probably got a
variable-length datum whose length word is munged to look like a
ridicuously large value.  You should be scanning the table to see
where the bad data is.

            regards, tom lane

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