Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-09 Thread Pavan Deolasee
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Yogvinder Singh wrote: > Pavan, > > What is the possible reason for the data corruption? > It could be anything from buggy hardware to bug in the code. As many have pointed out earlier, you are running a very old release and missing several bug fixes. If you are wi

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-09 Thread Richard Huxton
Yogvinder Singh wrote: > Pavan, > > What is the possible reason for the data corruption? Yogvinder - you haven't provided any information for people to identify what is corrupted let alone why it is corrupted. Like I said in my reply on the 7th - it's either hardware problems or a bug in the code

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-09 Thread Yogvinder Singh
: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue) On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Yogvinder Singh wrote: > That I'll do but that still won't answer the question : What is the reason > for the data corruption leading to " MemoryContextAlloc: invalid requ

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-09 Thread Pavan Deolasee
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Yogvinder Singh wrote: > That I'll do but that still won't answer the question : What is the reason > for the data corruption leading to " MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request > size" > That's because you may read the corrupt data and do further operations which lea

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-09 Thread Yogvinder Singh
: Yogvinder Singh Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue) On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Yogvinder Singh wrote: > Correcting myself: > > Here is the version details &

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Yogvinder Singh wrote: > Correcting myself: > > Here is the version details > > template1=# select version(); >version > > >

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-08 Thread Yogvinder Singh
gsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Kaltenbrunner Sent: January 08, 2009 3:50 PM To: Yogvinder Singh Cc: 'David Fetter'; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Kn

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-08 Thread Yogvinder Singh
f Of Stefan Kaltenbrunner Sent: January 08, 2009 3:50 PM To: Yogvinder Singh Cc: 'David Fetter'; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue) Yogvinder Singh wrote: > What I am looking for is the version in which th

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-08 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Yogvinder Singh wrote: What I am looking for is the version in which this problem has been resolved. I can't find it anywhere in the documentation. well there was by far not enough information in your original mail(not even the exact version you are on) to even verify that this is a data cor

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-08 Thread Yogvinder Singh
32 PM To: yogvinder Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue) On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 06:07:02AM -0800, yogvinder wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am having multiple postgresql 7.3(pretty old version now) on rhel4 >

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-07 Thread David Fetter
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 06:07:02AM -0800, yogvinder wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am having multiple postgresql 7.3(pretty old version now) on rhel4 > servers. Not just "pretty old," but past any community support. You'll need to build and implement an upgrade strategy along with doing your upgrade.

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-07 Thread Richard Huxton
yogvinder wrote: > Hi All, > > I am having multiple postgresql 7.3(pretty old version now) on rhel4 > servers. Which 7.3? Are you aware the community doesn't even officially support them now? > I am getting the error MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size on many of > these servers from time t

[GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-07 Thread yogvinder
Hi All, I am having multiple postgresql 7.3(pretty old version now) on rhel4 servers. I am getting the error MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size on many of these servers from time to time. On crawling through net, I have found that its because of some bad word value in a variable length fi