From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: mcelroy, tim <tim.mcelroy@bostonstock.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Memory and/or cache issues?
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 09:31:18 -0400
Message-ID: <20060505133118.GF8878@surnet.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19907.1146835520@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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<19907.1146835520@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tom Lane wrote:
> "mcelroy, tim" <tim.mcelroy@bostonstock.com> writes:
> > pg_dump: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size 18446744073709551613
>
> That looks more like a corrupt-data problem than anything directly to do
> with having or not having enough memory.
The bit pattern is certainly suspicious, though I'll grant that it
doesn't mean anything.
$ dc
2 o
18446744073709551613 p
1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111101
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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