Re: PG Patch

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Marc Abbott <MarcA@medscheme.co.za> wrote:

> Hi
>
> We have detected the following error in out PG logs:
>
> SASTERROR:  invalid memory alloc request size 4294967294.
>
> I have searched for the error and was pointed to a patch on the following
> link:
>
> http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/commands/vacuumlazy.c.diff?r1=1.61.2.1&r2=1.61.2.2
>
> Where can I find this patch and is there a specific way to apply the patch?
>
> Your help is appreciated.

That IS the patch.  However, why are you trying to patch pgsql by
hand?  Seems a hard way to do things.

What version of pgsql are you running and have  you tried just
updating to the latest release in your branch?