From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 13:50:04 -0400
Message-ID: <5221.1179337804@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070515105042.GA8121@burger.sun.ac.za>
References: <20070514131318.GA26537@sun.ac.za>
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<20070515105042.GA8121@burger.sun.ac.za>
Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za> writes:
> * Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [070514 16:36]:
>> $ 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).
You got the wrong process then --- maybe the postmaster itself rather
than the backend assigned to your psql session? You can identify the
backend PID via pg_backend_pid() within the psql session of interest,
or look in pg_stat_activity.
regards, tom lane
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