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From: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Rui DeSousa <rui@crazybean.net>
Cc: Vijaykumar Jain <vjain@opentable.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [External] Re: standby replication server throws invalid memory alloc request size , does not start up
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:43:16 -0600
Message-ID: <FE27233A-B777-4292-B560-E0EBA251D22F@elevated-dev.com> (raw)
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> On Jun 28, 2018, at 10:36 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> 
> How are you making the inference that that's the problem? It could very
> well be a postgres bug or somebody having used pg_resetxlog or.. ?

There could always be a postgres bug, however misconfigured cache layers are a very common cause of this kind of symptom, and postgres bugs very rare.

I don't believe pg_resetxlog would cause this particular problem. Failure to recovery yes, but not illegal memory operation.



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