Re: vacuumdb: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size 4294967292

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Harco de Hilster <Harco(dot)de(dot)Hilster(at)ATConsultancy(dot)nl>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: vacuumdb: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size 4294967292
Date: 2006-03-23 15:19:37
Message-ID: 9171.1143127177@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Harco de Hilster <Harco(dot)de(dot)Hilster(at)ATConsultancy(dot)nl> writes:
> (gdb) bt
> #0 MemoryContextAlloc (context=0x8b3a10, size=4294967292) at mcxt.c:505
> #1 0x00000000004e06f9 in lazy_vacuum_rel (onerel=0x2a955ecbd8,
> vacstmt=0x8bf390) at vacuumlazy.c:963

What do you have maintenance_work_mem set to? If it's larger than 1Gb
you need to back it off, or apply this patch:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-03/msg00094.php

regards, tom lane

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