From: Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 12:50:42 +0200
Message-ID: <20070515105042.GA8121@burger.sun.ac.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11217.1179153258@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <20070514131318.GA26537@sun.ac.za>
<11217.1179153258@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [070514 16:36]:
>
> If Postgres was built with debug symbols it would be useful to get a
> stack trace to try to figure out more about what's happening. If you
> want to try that, attach to the backend with gdb while the COPY is
> running, then do
>
> $ gdb /path/to/postgres PID-of-backend
Which pg-process? The Postmaster or psql? I have done this for the
Postmaster now but
> gdb> b errfinish
> gdb> cont
> ... wait for breakpoint to be hit ...
This did not happen although the error occurred (after a few hours).
Regards
Johann
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