Re: Question regarding VACUUM ANALYZE ERROR . . .

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Peter E(dot) Chen" <pchen3(at)jhmi(dot)edu>
Cc: "Postgres (General)" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Question regarding VACUUM ANALYZE ERROR . . .
Date: 2002-01-09 21:03:29
Message-ID: 15039.1010610209@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Peter E. Chen" <pchen3(at)jhmi(dot)edu> writes:
> After running VACUUM ANALYZE, I get the following error:
> ERROR: Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc(287033932)

Looks like corrupted data to me --- specifically, a variable-length
field with a garbage length word. You would probably get the same
error from a SELECT * FROM the-affected-table. With a little sleuth
work you might be able to identify and delete the broken row(s).

regards, tom lane

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