invalid memory alloc request size

Yesterday I had a problem on a 64-bit 9.1.1 install:

# select version();
                                                    version
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 PostgreSQL 9.1.1 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc-4.6.real (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) 4.6.1, 64-bit
(1 row)


The logs showed this anomaly:

2011-12-25T19:33:18+00:00 pgdb2-vpc postgres[27546]: [74474-1] ERROR:  invalid memory alloc request size
18446744073709551613
2011-12-25T19:33:18+00:00 pgdb2-vpc postgres[27546]: [74474-2] STATEMENT:  SELECT * FROM "asset_user_accesses" WHERE
("asset_user_accesses"."asset_code"= 'assignments:course_141208' AND "asset_user_accesses"."user_id" = 618503) LIMIT 1; 


Googling around, it sounds like this is often due to table corruption, which would be unfortunate, but usually seems to
berepeatable. I can re-run that query without issue, and in fact can select * from the entire table without issue. I do
seethe row was updated a few minutes after this error, so is it wishful thinking that vacuum came around and
successfullyremoved the old, corrupted row version?