Thread: MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size

Hi,

I have this error message during (I think) a simple select. (I think only
because the user is far from me and I cannot reproduce the error.) I found a
mail like this in the archive at 2002 august but there was no really
solution for this. Is there any? Can the vacuum or dump/restore be one?

Thanks, Attila

Sorry, it runs on Win98, Cygwin and the version is 7.2.

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> Hi,
>
> I have this error message during (I think) a simple select.
> (I think only
> because the user is far from me and I cannot reproduce the
> error.) I found a
> mail like this in the archive at 2002 august but there was no really
> solution for this. Is there any? Can the vacuum or
> dump/restore be one?
>
> Thanks, Attila
>
>
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ken=E9z_Attila?= <akenez@energo-szoft.hu> writes:
> I have this error message during (I think) a simple select. (I think only
> because the user is far from me and I cannot reproduce the error.)

It might be caused by corrupted data on disk (specifically, a bad length
word in a variable-length field).  Hard to tell with so little info.

            regards, tom lane