Re: invalid memory alloc request size

On 12/10/2014 10:08 AM, Gabriel Sánchez Martínez wrote:
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> On 12/10/2014 01:00 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>> On 12/10/2014 09:54 AM, Gabriel Sánchez Martínez wrote:
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>>> On 12/10/2014 12:47 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>>>> On 12/10/2014 09:25 AM, Gabriel Sánchez Martínez wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/10/2014 11:49 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>>>>>> On 12/10/2014 08:31 AM, Gabriel Sánchez Martínez wrote:
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>>>>>>> On 12/10/2014 11:16 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 12/10/2014 08:07 AM, Gabriel Sánchez Martínez wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also how did the Postgres server get installed?
>>>>>
>>>>> apt-get install
>>>>
>>>> Install from what repo?
>>>
>>> The default Ubuntu repository.
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>>>>

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>> The database was
>>> upgraded to 9.3 when Ubuntu was upgraded to 14.04. But I ran it for a
>>> while without issues. This issue is recent.
>>
>> So what was the version before?
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> 9.1. It has always been whatever was on the Ubuntu repos.
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>>
>> Where I am going with this, is trying to determine whether you have a
>> 'contaminated' data directory.
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> I appreciate it! Perhaps it is worth mentioning that the server had
> some issues with the linux md raid a while back. Two disks failed in
> quick succession and some data was corrupted. Those disks have been
> replaced and the RAID has been fine ever since. The database cluster
> was recreated from scratch after that, from backups of a few months
> before the disks started misbehaving. This is when that table was
> created with pg_restore. There were no issues with the restore, and the
> backup was from a few months before the disk issue, so I don't suspect
> corruption in the backup.

I would investigate the possibility that the raid is having problems again.

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