Re: pg_dump error

Ferdinand Smit <ferdinand@telegraafnet.nl> writes:
> What does this mean ?!? Is this a corrupt database, a bug or has the pg_dump
> not enough memory ?

> $ pg_dump login | gzip > login.dump.gz
> pg_dump: ERROR:  MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size 4294967293
> pg_dump: lost synchronization with server, resetting connection
> pg_dump: SQL command to dump the contents of table "postcodereeks" failed:
> PQendcopy() failed.

First guess is a corrupted data value in table postcodereeks.  Possibly
you can narrow down which row(s) have bad data and remove 'em.

            regards, tom lane