Hmmm that looks like to me a HW problem causing data corruption. Try doing a REINDEX for the database, if possible restart the database server machine and then try taking the dump again to see if that works.
But I will recommend doing memory tests for the hardware...
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Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB (
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On 1/31/07, airbulb < airbulb@gmail.com> wrote:Hello
I get the following error when dumping a pg database with WIN_1252 encoding:
pg_dump --clean --no-owner dumpfile | gzip >/home/postgres/globalen.dump.gz 2>>./err.out
pg_dump: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size 4294967293
pg_dump: SQL command to dump the contents of table "site" failed: PQendcopy() failed.
pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size 4294967293
pg_dump: The command was: COPY public.site (site_id, url, status, created, "domain", title) TO stdout;
Possibly related is a particular query with pgAdmin on same site table with above error yields
ERROR: invalid multibyte character for locale
I have upgraded from 8.1.2 to 8.1.6 but get the same error.
Any help appreciated.
Regards,
David.