Re: Out of memory (Failed on request size 24)

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:53:08AM -0500, Rob Owen wrote:
> PostgreSQL 8.0.3 running on AIX 5.3 (same thing happens on 5.1 though).
> DBMS was running fine for some months but now one of the databases isn't accessible. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> DBMS starts up fine, but any operation on the files database (psql files, vaccumdb files, pgdump files) yields the same result. The client responds with
>
> > psql files

<snip>

Something screwed up:

> TopTransactionContext: 2145378304 total in 266 blocks; 928 free (14 chunks); 2145377376 used

That's a lot of memory. I thought there was a check on negative sized
allocations... Did "make check" pass ok?

Have a nice day,
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