On 01/30/2018 10:43 PM, Jan Wieck wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 12:35 PM, Stefan Blanke
> <stefan.bla...@framestore.com <mailto:stefan.bla...@framestore.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     We've tripped over an error when doing a "COPY.. TO STDOUT WITH
>     BINARY" query.
> 
>     "ERROR:  invalid memory alloc request size 1073741824"
>     (exactly 1GB)
> 
> 
> I have my money on a corrupted TOAST entry. Is this happening on
> trustworthy hardware or beige box with no ECC or RAID?
> 

I'll bet you it's not that. It's quite unlikely that would fail with
exactly 1GB request size. It seems much more like a buffer that we keep
to be power of 2. The question is which one.


regards

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