Re: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size

* Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [070514 16:36]:
>
> If Postgres was built with debug symbols it would be useful to get a
> stack trace to try to figure out more about what's happening.  If you
> want to try that, attach to the backend with gdb while the COPY is
> running, then do
>
>     $ gdb /path/to/postgres PID-of-backend

Which pg-process?  The Postmaster or psql?  I have done this for the
Postmaster now but
>     gdb> b errfinish
>     gdb> cont
>     ... wait for breakpoint to be hit ...

This did not happen although the error occurred (after a few hours).

Regards
Johann

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