btw, if you could read russian, we have GiST programming tutorial
http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/talks/gist_tutorial.html
Oleg
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
> Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj@pointblue.com.pl> writes:
>> I created custom type, and attempt to create gist indexing for it, to
>> make search wind quick.
>> on select from * where something << 'something'; I get:
>
>> WARNING: problem in alloc set GiST temporary context: detected write
>> past chunk end in block 0x843e6e0, chunk 0x843e994
>
>> Can someone tell me please, what might be the cause?
>
> Looks like you're scribbling on memory that doesn't belong to you.
> Check for miscomputed palloc request sizes, etc.
>
> regards, tom lane
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