Re: Out of memory on pg_dump

Chris-

did you look at Zdenek Kotala's pgcheck ?
http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/pgcheck/pgcheck/src/

download 3 source files and run makefile

anyone know of a PG integrity checker
?
Martin Gainty
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> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Out of memory on pg_dump
> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:29:48 -0400
> From: chopkins(at)cra(dot)com
> To: tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
> CC: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
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> Thanks Tom. Next question (and sorry if this is an ignorant one)...how
> would I go about doing that?
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> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 11:07 AM
> To: Chris Hopkins
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> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Out of memory on pg_dump
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> "Chris Hopkins" <chopkins(at)cra(dot)com> writes:
> > 2009-08-19 22:35:42 ERROR: out of memory
> > 2009-08-19 22:35:42 DETAIL: Failed on request of size 536870912.
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> > Is there an easy way to give pg_dump more memory?
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> That isn't pg_dump that's out of memory --- it's a backend-side message.
> Unless you've got extremely wide fields in this table, I would bet on
> this really being a corrupted-data situation --- that is, there's some
> datum in the table whose length word has been corrupted into a very
> large value. You can try to isolate and delete the corrupted row(s).
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> regards, tom lane
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