"PostgreSQL Bugs List" <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org> writes:
> The database cores with the following message printed on screen.
> WARNING: specified item offset is too large
Hmm. AFAICS this should always be followed by an ERROR message. There
are at least two issues here: why does this message occur, and why does
a crash follow instead of more-graceful error recovery?
Does any additional information show up in the postmaster log?
Could you provide your test program? Could you provide a stack trace
from the backend core dump?
regards, tom lane